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Originally Posted by Rasczak  True, but what can't be said of other groups is "this group is responsible for virtually all terrorist attacks in the last five years." (By "responsible for" I mean they produce the terrorists that carry them out.)
"They have two lungs and one stomach" can be said of any group of people too, but that little tidbit doesn't really add anything useful to the conversation either. |
I guess that kind of illustrates what I was saying - a generalisation that can be applied to any group of people is not really a very useful thing. As I see it, the terrorists are a subset of Muslims, but they are also a subset of human beings too. Surely it's more useful to focus on the subset with one's anger and reactions - like focusing on Al Qaeda for example.
Perhaps a parallel might be whether when considering police brutality or corruption, one sees it as a thing associated with all police officers, or all authority figures (focusing too wide for usefulness) or actually focusing on just those who do those things. Focus too wide and the hatred gets spread around where it doesn't rightfully belong.