Eliezer, your lack of familiarity with “the other side” on the topic of terrorists is all too obvious from your crude attempt at a characterization of it. All you appear to know about it is a few platitudes. Often I get the feeling from this site that it is not so much about overcoming your own biases as it is about coming up with new excuses to dismiss views that you don’t agree with by applying the genetic fallacy over and over (e.g. “suchandsuch belief is a product of suchandsuch bias”).
Eliezer, your lack of familiarity with “the other side” on the topic of terrorists is all too obvious from your crude attempt at a characterization of it. All you appear to know about it is a few platitudes. Often I get the feeling from this site that it is not so much about overcoming your own biases as it is about coming up with new excuses to dismiss views that you don’t agree with by applying the genetic fallacy over and over (e.g. “suchandsuch belief is a product of suchandsuch bias”).