Scott Atran: Reacting to Terror

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Anthropologist Scott Atran and how we react to terrorist threats.

Scott Atran is the Director of Research in Anthropology at France's National Center for Scientific Research and has faculty positions in psychology and sociology at the University of Michigan and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He is also the author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists.

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[stoprainingonme]

@hyperseauton Out of Sam Harris and Scott Atran one of them has spent years studying the subject, the other has read the Koran

[Miken9000]

"...never in human history have so few people caused fear in so many" 2:29 Atran is a voice of reason in a sea of media generated hysteria.

[AKgooner92]

This is random, But his last name is my First name.

[callmeal84]

@stoprainingonme

Harris is twat

[n3bulous]

@n3bulous I do, however, disagree with Atran's belief that religion will always be with us. I'm not sure one way or the other. The future just 10 years from now is impossibly difficult to predict, so who can say what humanity will be like in 10,000 years from now? 1 million years from now? etc.

[n3bulous]

Between Atran and Harris, Atran is the more scientific of the two, by far.

Atran's aim is to study, understand, and explain.

Harris' aim seems to be to score talking points and win debates.

Atran is an illuminator that does actual work in the field to better understand the subject.

Harris is preachy and relies on platitudes.

I'm atheist, but I'm sorry, I can't stand listening to Harris speak.

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@fuckooo Sam Harris used Dershovitz? from now on, I would consider Sam Harris as low as Dershovitz.

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@ProfRonconi Wow..just wow..in your hatred, you missed what he explained. He explained the trend has shifted. Gee!

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@FarazR2 Could not exist so universally without the medium of unjustified belief. I guess you didn't understand what the guy just explained.

[FarazR2]

Is it bad if I agree with both Harris and Atran? Harris brings good points, in that justification for beliefs is in fact, necessary. Dialogue is necessary and in general, intellectual pressure would be better for the future than religion/dogma.

As for Atran, he is right that in this case, it's not the beliefs themselves that causes the problem, but the situation. But this is part of human nature as he stated, and could not exist so universally without the medium of unjustified belief.

[PrincessDesert]

@SeeProfileForDetails I think he's giggling and smiling at the ignorant Americanos who are the most dangerous cult in the world

i'm not being sarcastic lol, if I was muslim with an AK I'd do the same and attack the ignorant