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Simply put, people perpetrate these acts for a complicated mix of reasons, and there’s effectively no way to “profile” a future terrorist. “Fundamentally, the quest for a single answer for the reason for terror is pretty doomed — it’s like trying to answer the question of why there is crime,” J.M. Berger, a terror researcher, told [Alan] Cullison.
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Researchers just have no one-size-fits-all story to explain why some people “snap” like this…There’s just no single story line that fits all or even most attacks; this is a consistent finding among the people whose lives’ work is to figure this stuff out.
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Unfortunately, we — as a species — really, really want there to be some overriding explanation for these heinous acts. Human brains are not built to handle ambiguity and complexity when it comes to scary or otherwise emotionally charged subjects.
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