Are these biased questions?

[seaglass]

I asked these on another discussion board that has both pro and anti-war posters:

"Honest appraisal four years after 9/11 - are there more terrorists now or fewer terrorists now?

Are people born terrorists or do they become terrorists? What makes people become terrorists (if it is not genetic)? How do we prevent people from becoming terrorists?

If terrorists have no qualms about blowing themselves up to achieve their goals, how would fear of the US prevent them from becoming terrorists?"

I thought I was asking genuine questions that would provoke some thought but I got accused of being biased and making a statement with the questions.

What do you think, fair questions or not?

[Postman]

1. In Bushworld questions are not allowed.

Its a sign that you aren't drinking the kool-aid.

[seaglass]

2. Yeah, they already know about my feelings about Bush and

despise me for it (though I've never used the word hate or demeaning names for him).

But I did think the questions were fair and I think the problem is that they just don't like their own answers.

[FloridaPat]

3. I have no idea how these are biased. Except the Arabs are the

only terrorists that blow themselves up, I believe. The Irish didn't. The terrorists we trained for South American upheavals weren't Arabas. So maybe that is it. But those are good questions and would make a good discussion with people with open minds.

[Igel]

4. You probably are making a statement with the questions:

Even you don't intend to, you'd probably be taken to be making a statement. But I suspect you're not asking them in a context-free situation (which would be awfully hard to do these days), and rather intend to make a statement.

"Genuine."

In themselves, they're not biased. But they surely have no simple answers. And, for some, there's not enough basis for intelligent thought without a definition, or more objective information becoming available.

[seaglass]

5. The context was a rambling post about Cindy Sheehan and Iraq

and this was part of the post:

"We need to make this war end through a situation of overwhelming pain for the Arab communities and only then will it truly end.
We need to launch attacks of such verocity and power that the arab people will fall to their knees to see this end …. I do not sanction nuclear weapons use .. but I do sanction massive demolition of people and proPerty to minimalize the numbers of American live to be lost before this ends."

My questions were on our approach to terrorism in general.

[madeline_con]

7. "... overwhelming pain for the Arab communities .."

You wrote that?

[seaglass]

8. No,never. It was the post I was responding to. n/t

[madeline_con]

9. oh.

Liberation and nuking all mixed up in their heads. :eyes:

[0007]

6. Gee, they sound like fair questions that deserved honest

answers. Your light years ahead of the asinine responses you received. I've noticed through out the years that when a person can't frame an answer to your question they'll accuse you of stacking the desk.

I wouldn't waste my time with an nincompoop of this nature.