&gt; One only has to look at the terrorists to know for sure that provoking them is not the issue<p>Maybe you shouldn&#x27;t look at their behaviours today, but at their origins. Most such groups appear because somebody felt excluded and powerless, or because some sociopath exploited a power vacuum. They grow because there&#x27;s large populations of people who feel powerless and excluded.<p>Prevent that from becoming a problem in the first place and the few remaining terrorists would be powerless, because they&#x27;d be too few and far between.