"...sabotage the group's sparse chances to drink water safely..." or just drink water full stop? It's a lot of fun to turn a watering hole into nothing but a pit of mud. That's the wholesale way of bringing an entire group to its knees. And yes, seems like it's worked in the literal sense already. It is about destruction of certain constructs and concepts. I'm not getting what you mean about kamikaze warfare. That is self-sacrifice that is done for a spiritual ideological end (or originally was) or in support of a national purpose. I feel that is different from destruction (of others mostly) for a political or identity ideology.
I have never seen Fight Club, I have a very difficult time with watching certain images when they are the result of brutality perpetrated by one individual against another. "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic," has been attributed to Stalin. In order for me to compartmentalize death, it needs to be at a statistical level.
As for wanting to destroy something beautiful, that valuation would need to be present. For extremists looking to destroy everything as it currently exists in favour of a communist type system, I'm uncertain if that is their motivation. Or maybe that is exactly why: there is something beautiful, someone else has it and I don't, therefore, I am going to destroy it so no one can have it. What doesn't exist cannot be in the hands of the corrupt capitalist, or whatever -ist you prefer. I think that a willful destruction such as described in the FC scene above, that is sociopathic. But then, so may be many extremist groups today
"...sabotage the group's sparse chances to drink water safely..." or just drink water full stop? It's a lot of fun to turn a watering hole into nothing but a pit of mud. That's the wholesale way of bringing an entire group to its knees. And yes, seems like it's worked in the literal sense already. It is about destruction of certain constructs and concepts. I'm not getting what you mean about kamikaze warfare. That is self-sacrifice that is done for a spiritual ideological end (or originally was) or in support of a national purpose. I feel that is different from destruction (of others mostly) for a political or identity ideology.
I have never seen Fight Club, I have a very difficult time with watching certain images when they are the result of brutality perpetrated by one individual against another. "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic," has been attributed to Stalin. In order for me to compartmentalize death, it needs to be at a statistical level.
As for wanting to destroy something beautiful, that valuation would need to be present. For extremists looking to destroy everything as it currently exists in favour of a communist type system, I'm uncertain if that is their motivation. Or maybe that is exactly why: there is something beautiful, someone else has it and I don't, therefore, I am going to destroy it so no one can have it. What doesn't exist cannot be in the hands of the corrupt capitalist, or whatever -ist you prefer. I think that a willful destruction such as described in the FC scene above, that is sociopathic. But then, so may be many extremist groups today