If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you.

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.