Comment by patates
10 hours ago
The text is from Wikipedia, which summarizes the ideas from the book, both of which have been linked/referenced in the comment already.
Comments on the Israel situation are my thoughts.
Is there anything else I missed?
Israel is simply protecting itself and the attack is retaliation to the islamic religious terrorism.
How is this book supports any thing even remotely in either favor.
If anything , this applies more to religious terrorists ie. Hamas.
Not to a national democratic state
The book doesn't support anything in "their" favor. The idea boils down to nobody being "them".
Related part from Wikipedia:
> Becker argues that the conflict between contradictory immortality projects (particularly in religion) is a major source of the violence and misery in the world such as wars, genocide, racism, nationalism and so forth since immortality projects that contradict one another threaten one's core beliefs and sense of security
There you go.