Question

Create a terrorist profile and defend it

Answer 1

Create a terrorist profile and defend it

profile of a terrorist:

• &People having no moral justification
• Who have had Cognitive restructuring
• They have now had dehumanisation
• They do not have individual say and have faced deindividuation
• They have a particular goal to be achieved.
• They are highly careful as well as cautious.
• They obey direct orders and are not decisive.

a) Moral justification: somehow, the self proclaimed leaders get ready to kill themselves or their acquaintances and justify it in the name of either religion or the wrong doings of the government. It is easy for the terrorist to succumb young children to arms or mass destructions and all of this is correct for them. They justify their actions saying, this is in the name of god and their sacrifice for life would please god. Such perceptions, make such acts justifiable for them.

b) Cognitive restructuring: in case of the terrorist organizations, there is a perception that the victims they are hurting or killing, do not deserve to live and it is not immoral to kill these individuals. They think that these individuals deserve the fate that they are getting, and hence, their actions are correct.

c) Advantageous comparison: in this method, the terrorists agree that the way of life lead by them and their fundamentals as well as cultural values are correct and supreme and that allows them to act superior to others or show their superiority by acts of killing.

d) Dehumanization: this is a behavior in which people tend to undermine other people who try and bud as being individuals. By dehumanization, the leaders, debase the individuality of the recruits, thus forcing de-individuation.

e) De-individuation: this explains, how a person when influenced by the group, lose the sense of self and tend to follow people governing the group. As a result, when majority of the people are carrying out the same actions, other follow. The