&gt; It&#x27;s hard to imagine any effective strategy that doesn&#x27;t involve killing people<p>I disagree, one is actually described in the article:<p>&quot;[For] the youth of the nation are closer to the innate nature [of humans] on account of the rebelliousness within them.&quot;<p>Do you think capitalism&#x2F;democracy&#x2F;whatever mix we have in the West does a good job of preventing these people fighting for &quot;Jihad&quot;?<p>We don&#x27;t really give young people (say ages 15-25, before males are fully emotionally developed) a chance to &quot;rebel safely&quot;. We don&#x27;t even have a definition of what it could be! I&#x27;ll just leave it here, there are many options where to go from there, I think.<p>It actually reminds of &quot;drug education&quot; we had in high school. The guy was a social worker who worked with people on drugs, gave them clean syringes, put them on methadone, etc. His idea basically was, it&#x27;s perfectly cool if you want to try it, but it&#x27;s better to understand the risks and wait a little bit, until you grow older. I think it was very sane approach (and very counter-intuitive to people who support war on drugs and &quot;say no&quot; and similar things). Maybe the same should be done with weapons and war, and if someone still wants to try the war, send him as a journalist to war zone.<p>Recently I had another related weird idea: Someone should write a sci-fi story about a society which puts its youths through a very strict, military like institution. It would then be revealed that the whole purpose of the institution is to make young people rebel against authority, in a safe environment. That would be akin to a successful graduation exam, because the society would believe that those people who do that are going to be the best citizens.<p>(You can also read my earlier comment on the topic here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10572797" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10572797</a>)