Inward and Outward Terrorism

As far as I know, there are two kinds of people when it comes to dealing with adversity. Ones who turn inward and ones who turn outward. The ones who turn inward hang themselves or jump off a cliff, and the ones who turn outward get a gun and start shooting students in classrooms. We all know that the casualties are much more for the outward-turning people. And it's a pretty good estimate of the paap they committed. And most of them are what we call terrorists, right? We call them that, but that is not what they call themselves.

The inward turning guys do think a little about turning outward and doing random killings, but they couldn't live with the shame of atrocities they would have committed. Because in their world, they will be lonely after that. Their life won't improve, because they will either go to jail or lead a life of eternal anonymity from thereon, and this won't be any better than the one they have already been living before they self-destructed.

The outward-turning guys - they don't care about the shame. They feel the shame, maybe too little to be ever admitted even to themselves, but they feel it. It's masked by feelings of victory and achievement. It's masked by a sense of contribution to their race or ethnicity. It's masked by the sweetness of revenge. And they get addicted to it. They do more of it, because they need it to protect themselves and their family, and they want it, because they are soldiers now. Soldiers of peace, or holy soldiers. Or warriors of god. They portray themselves in a positive sense. Not just positive, but the highest sense of self there is. But they drown themselves in this ocean of feelings of success, and eventually they don't notice that what change they wanted from other people didn't come.

Both of them are wrong, and stupid.

The ones who turn inward and self-terminate - they need self-discovery and they need to learn about themselves. They need another chance. Because complacency is what they couldn't live with. They want to achieve something, but they don't have the resources. They can't think of anyway to change their life. Some do - they give up everything and run away from home. They will be free and happy - even for a short while, because their life is in their own hands now. Nobody is around to tell them what to do all the time - even if they lead their life on the lowest rung of the social and economic ladder.

The ones who turn outward and exterminate the "traitors" and harm-doers - they too need a chance. And you know what the difference is? People are too scared of being hurt, that they don't even give them the chance to learn from their mistakes and do something good. We see cases where some of them learn that this a wrong way to lead a life, and give it up and surrender. They enter what resembles "witness-protection". This is also a life of anonymity, but it's not filled with shame. It's now filled with a sense of lifelong achievement. This is mild and positive. Everybody is scared to give them a chance. And this is where the government must step in - because the government exists to do what people cannot do by themselves. Give them a chance and a different spatio-temporal identity forever, and they will (surprisingly more often than we expect them to) CHOOSE IT.

This would be my way of dealing with adversity. Of course, there will be those who won't listen. There will be those who will continue to do what they believe in, even if everyone in their little world thinks it's wrong and despicable. For the inward-turning half of them, let God give them a better existence either in their next life, or after life. For the remaining outward-turning, adamant guys, harsh action is the way to go. And this must be the last option in the list.