Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
You can go on YouTube and see parents sincerely celebrating the 'martyrdom' of their child. In 'The Looming Tower' you can read about Mujahideen in Afghanistan standing enviously over the mangled corpse of their comrade because he's off in Paradise while they're still on shītty old earth.

These things are real, they're alarmingly common and to call them 'mad' is true only in the most glib sense, since this is a 'madness' has afflicted mankind for most of its history.
So.... what happened to your Venn diagram then?