There are no successful and unsuccessful people. A few ones are just trying to be someone else. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up is not the worst-case scenario for them, nor the end scenario at all. Making their families and loved ones bear a financial burden — just as Germans still pay for war crimes — would immediately add consequences to their actions. The penalty needs to be properly calibrated to be a true disincentive, without imparting any sense of heroism or martyrdom to the families in question.

"Mediocre minds are outraged by small insults but passive, subdued, and silent in front of very large ones. " - From Bed of Procrustes.

So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty.