i call for a general deprogramming of terrorists and extremists. these ideas need to die. all they do is cause harm.
What criteria should there be for being deprogrammed, and who gets to decide who should be deprogrammed?
I agree that there are poisonous cultural attitudes out there, but we have to be careful that an instrument that deals with those doesn't end up being used against civil dissent.
easy. preaching hatred and religious bigotry, racism to the point of hate speech, and generally violent and intolerant ideas. let's make the world a better place by killing hatred, not by making martyrs. we should all get along and not believe heretical ideas based on iron-age written works that have been bastardized by everyone and their mother.
on a pragmatic note, look at it this way. these guys are brainwashed. if we torture, kill, imprison them, or do them bodily harm, they'll be considered martyrs and serve as incentive for the terrorists to keep going. what would hurt their cause? that ex-members call them out on their bullshit. i'm not talking redemption, i'm talking a full 180 on their beliefs. it's much more powerful. look at how devastated people are when someone goes off the deep end. imagine what it would mean to extremists if someone came back up to the surface, instead of staying at the bottom of their hateful cesspit. it's not the humane solution, but the solution that deals the most damage to the cause of bigotry.
tl;dr: i'm calling for reverse brainwashing, because lobotomies without anaesthetics would augment terrorist tenacity.
