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It's what they experience that can make them dangerous.

Around here that's the "victim of the environment" theory of criminal behavior. It has some serious holes, not least of which is that more good citizens come out of those bad environments than criminals do.

While it is true in a metaphysical sense that nobody is born evil, ("original sin" is a concept that negates true morality at its root), it doesn't automatically follow that nobody IS evil. Many--in fact most--major radical Islamist leaders come from pampered, wealthy backgrounds, with few having been personally caught up in the conflicts of their region. Their actions are a matter of choice and philosophy.

And it's the responsibility of the countries that got hit by them to understand why they became so and deal with it.

Most of us understand their motivations quite well. How to deal with it is a difficult question, and a proper matter for discussion. I still submit that an inability to get past the motivation issue is an obstacle for many, and the psychological result is the complete evasion of that issue and hence evasion on the solutions.

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