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- Title
Suicide terrorism, moral relativism, and the situationist narrative.
- Authors
Mandel, David R.
- Abstract
Lankford challenges two popular views of suicide terrorists: first, that they are psychologically normal and, second, that they are heroic, not unlike professional soldiers. I augment Lankford's critique by tracing these views to a simplistic situationist narrative and to a careless form of moral relativism to which many scholars adhere. Conceptual weaknesses of these positions are briefly discussed.
- Subjects
SUICIDE terrorism; MORAL relativism; SUICIDE &; psychology; MILITARY personnel; INTERNATIONALE situationniste
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 4, p373
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X13003440