The only way to prevent institutions from rotting is by automatic dissolution, to have the same life expectancy as free-market companies. - 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.

Soldiers are more loyal to their comrades and die for them, than to their country. Academics are more loyal to their peers than to truth.

The idea of is that nobody shd cause risk to others without impunity.