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SoYeonKimSecondPaper 3 - 18 May 2012 - Main.SoYeonKim
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Terrorism as the Strongest Form of Social Control | | | The only but also the most potent way terrorism achieves its goals is by creating vulnerability. It incites fear and creates disunity in people regarding the ways to end terrorism. It breeds distrust of the government’s ability to counter terrorism and a need to take law into one’s own hands. It also brings media attention to the causes of the perpetrators of terrorism and while it invites fervent critics, it also attracts people to their cause. These effects of terrorism, when combined with other forms of social control such as the family, education, and law, create susceptibility to the goals of the terrorist groups that make the fruition of their objectives more likely.
Why is Terrorism Effective? | |
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< | Terrorism is an effective form of social control solely because it destroys and replaces other forms of social control. The family is the cradle of life and love, and the values we learn from our families live on as the bedrock of life. Terrorism achieves its potency because it destroys families and disunites them along ideological lines. The family is unable to pass its wisdom if its members are in constant fear of their lives. In addition, it changes the values that they eventually succeed in inculcating. The focus of families shifts from indoctrinating the values of compassion, love, and respect for others to survival, fear, and endurance. Terrorism transforms families from being essential ethical and moral unit of society into a veritable squadron dedicated to the goal of perpetuating the family lineage. This effect on families may not aid in achieving the immediate goals of terrorist organizations but it does create a sense of weakness that makes people more dissatisfied with their government and more amenable to give in to the goals of the terrorist organizations in the long run. | >
> | Terrorism is an effective form of social control solely because it destroys and replaces other forms of social control. The family is the cradle of life and love, and the values we learn from our families live on as the bedrock of life. Terrorism achieves its potency because it destroys families and disunites them along ideological lines. The family is unable to pass its wisdom if its members are in constant fear of their lives. In addition, terrorism changes the values that families eventually succeed in inculcating. The focus of families shifts from indoctrinating the values of compassion, love, and respect for others to survival, fear, and endurance. Terrorism transforms families from being essential ethical and moral unit of society into a veritable squadron dedicated to the goal of perpetuating the family lineage. This effect on families may not aid in achieving the immediate goals of terrorist organizations but it does create a sense of weakness that makes people more dissatisfied with their government and more amenable to give in to the goals of the terrorist organizations in the long run. | | | Terrorism also destroys other weaker forms of social control. Education and law are beautiful creations of civilization because they are weak forms of social control. Laws exist because people break them and education exists to allow people to think outside the contours of the framework; but they are nonetheless important social constructions that shape people’s behavior and create some semblance of order. Terrorism destroys both. People at the forefront of terrorist attacks are unable to receive education and schools are frequent targets of annihilation. The destruction of schools adversely affects literacy rates and diminishes the chances of escaping the cycle of terrorism. Terrorism is also effective because it leads to a distrust of laws. Terrorism, especially state sponsored terrorism, can have the façade of being legal because what is legal is arbitrarily determined by whoever is claiming to be the government. History shows that it is quite easy to legalize evil; after all, almost everything done under the Third Reich was “legal.” The destruction of law and education creates chaos and defenselessness that terrorist groups leverage and generates more willingness to cede to their demands. |
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