[extropy-chat] even if Arab poverty were terminated

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Al Brooks wrote:

> Of course ending poverty wouldn't hurt at all, but you can see in 
> Western nations that fundamentalist xians and orthodox jews becoming 
> wealthy does not substantially alter their extreme religious views.

However, in a more wealthy society the extremists are much
more isolated from the moderate masses.  Poverty and despair
makes it easy for the extremists to convince people to give
up their lives for the "good cause".

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