Assertion: terrorist | /r/HasProperty | normal
Facets:
value: psychologically
type: DEGREE
value: perfectly
type: DEGREE
value: from a clinical point of view
type: OTHER
value: despite their murderous violence
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: However, most scholars agree that terrorists are psychologically normal despite their murderous violence and, in fact, are little different from other types of individuals who use violence for political ends.
text: terrorist mindset” is also problematic because it fuels the notion that terrorists are abnormal, resulting in knee-jerk endeavours to uncover the abnormality.
text: Psychologists who study terrorism have been claiming for decades that there is no terrorist personality and that terrorists are psychologically "normal.
text: However, Fried (1982:123) notes that some psychologists with extensive experience with some of the most dangerous terrorists "emphasize that the terrorist may be perfectly normal from a clinical point of view, that he may have a psychopathology of a different order, or that his personality may be only a minor factor in his becoming a terrorist if he was recruited into a terrorist group rather than having volunteered for one.