It's probably slightly less effective than threatening to kill family members but probably more than threat of jail time.
Either way you require someone alive and with mental awareness. The mind reading tools found in science fiction hasn't been developed yet.
It’s a lot easier to blow yourself up(or to spread ideology which encourages it)for a cause that you believe is helping people, in particular _your_ people.
Ordinary people just want to be left alone. Old guys wishing for more power will use anything to get it, including sacrificing the younger generations.
It absolutely is something that they think helps their people, yes.
Beliefs stop when they are no longer about yourself but about how other people should live. Especially when those other people loudly protest that this is how you think they should be living. Killing them is just murder, not the spreading of ideas.
But hey, those human rights are just for decoration anyway.
I don’t understand why you said “no” before this; I believe this agreed with what I’m saying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Signs_and_symptoms
The 'traditional order of society' is a society run by psycho pathological individuals and benefits nobody except for those individuals.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
1. Not everybody shares your values.
2. People who don't share your values are not necessarily brainwashed.
3. People may do things that are irrational under your system of values, but rational under their own.
And BTW, there is no a single fighting force in the world that doesn't have old men persuading young men to sign up and risk throwing away their lives. There's not a whole lot of difference between regular soldiers persuaded to participate in a forlorn hope or banzai charge attacking a defended position and a suicide bomber or kamikaze.
I think it clearly is.
It's not like these keys are shared among disinterested strangers who have no attachment to each other.
This isn’t hard to understand, but it’s easy to forget our civilization hangs by a thread more often than any of us care to admit.
Which is a much much higher bar to clear for any would be rubber hose attackers.
Why do you think governments are demanding those services give them access to quickly remove "misinformation"?
(Including a system of people.)
Even nation state adversaries don’t have infinite resources to allocate for all opponents.
can't torture us all!
Bob, Jon, and Tom have pieces of the key. Bob and Jon are in the US and arrested over and commanded by a court to give up the key. Tom is the holdout. The US will issue an international arrest warrant, and now Tom can never safely fly again or the plane will be diverted to the nearest US friendly airport where they will be extradited. So, yea, "safe" is very situational here.
That's the actual weak link to attack.