http://www.riledup.com/debate/324/prolifers-are-the-modern-day-terrorist Pro-life groups who harrass women when entering clinics and who hold up gruesome posters on the side of the road take away everyones right to enjoy personal freedoms. Just like all other Terrorists. en-us There must surely be reasons for the one-sidedness of the violent outbursts that have accompanied pro-life demonstrations far too often. I wonder what they could be?. But I don't wonder too hard, having spent a few years studying this very thing. Many definably immature, unbalanced people find security primarily and fundamentally in their shared beliefs. This requires validation by approval of others. When the only way to gain that approval is to do and believe as those whom you recognize as your peers do and believe, you wind up with some serious groupthink going on (think mob-mentality). And, from that spins a lot of the violence inherent to pro-life mass demonstrations; pro-lifers are less than half as likely to be logically motivated as they are any other reason, from religiously to emotionally or some admixture thereof. Moreover, there exists a strong correlation between violent pro-life opinion expression methods and the existence of religious extremism in the individual subject's lifestyle. Couldn't be accidental, could it?. But hey, what do cultural anthropologists know about this kind of thing :). Jake_the_Mad Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:54:40 +0000 http://www.riledup.com/debate/324/prolifers-are-the-modern-day-terrorist http://www.riledup.com/debate/324/prolifers-are-the-modern-day-terrorist doesn't make anyone who is aggressive in their beliefs terrorists. It may make them annoying and out of line but that is their right. . I agree. I think it is ridiculous and offensive that they don't accept personal freedoms of others, but it is their personal freedom to do that. Rocky-Mt-High Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:51:57 +0000 http://www.riledup.com/debate/324/prolifers-are-the-modern-day-terrorist http://www.riledup.com/debate/324/prolifers-are-the-modern-day-terrorist Pro-lifers often cross the line between the two, and often, when this is pointed out to them, they will try to justify it with religion, moral belief and/or emotional intensity, none of which prove anything more than immaturity. Jake_the_Mad Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:48:15 +0000 http://www.riledup.com/debate/324/prolifers-are-the-modern-day-terrorist http://www.riledup.com/debate/324/prolifers-are-the-modern-day-terrorist