Are there questions science can never answer?
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This house opines that terrorism is the by product of poverty and illiteracy
Wrong frame entirely. Terrorism correlates weakly with poverty, terrorism requires resources, planning, and often higher education among recruits. The 9/11 hijackers were educated. ISIS leadership included engineers and doctors. Meanwhile, billions live in poverty without turning to violence. You're confusing desperation with ideology, which is a category error. The real driver is grievance narratives combined with charismatic leadership and organizational structure, not material deprivation. If poverty caused terrorism, we'd see it evenly distributed across the poorest regions, but we don't. You're offering a comfortable moral story that lets us ignore harder questions about how extremist movements radicalize otherwise ordinary people. Why assume economics explains what ideology clearly does?
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