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This title is more descriptive and the other, older, discussion has no comments.

Merge may still be useful to remove other link.

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The title here is editorialized, I'd prefer to keep her original title.

Ah yes. Removing "Heartbreaking" is something I would agree with. However I would not have read an article with the other title - it makes it seem like more fluff about terrorists.

Yes, exactly. I would not have come across this had the editorialized title not gained more traction.

Quite so. The title changed after I'd clicked the link. Without the mention of it being a piece by Robin Williams wife I'd have skipped over assuming it another piece about radicalisation.

I saw the other title and skipped it. I think this one is fine as is.

ETA: I suppose "The terrorist in Robin Williams' brain" would be a fair compromise.

Mentioning that it is written by his widow was a large factor in me clicking the link.

Editorialized or not, actually mentioning that it's about Robin Williams is helpful. I skipped the other link, and I'm glad I didn't miss the article.

Its a little unfortunate that the bag of metaphors in popular American discourse have come to contain little beyond "war against *" and "terrorists".

I'm not disagreeing ... The original title didn't result in a discussion here. I purposely said "normalized" for this reason (maybe the original title with Robin Williams in parenthesis after Husband).

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