Terrorists vs disgruntled employees

[spamsink]

Remember several stories a few years ago when a disgruntled employee came to his (former) office and shot several of his (former) co-workers or arbitrary employees of the company (before killing himself)?

Suppose this way of dealing with frustration became fashionable and a loosely-knit "organization" calling itself "ALliance of Killers: Annoyed Employees who are Disgruntled Absolutely" had been formed, employing every possible means of communication, so that every time a disgruntled employee commits an act of mass murder-suicide, the organization claims responsibility. No one feels secure anymore even at their office workplaces; there is no way to identify an ALK:AEDA member. What is the society to do to prevent panic?

And how would that situation be different from the current one?

Comments

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, the state might open an Appeasement Center for Disgruntled Employees and advertise it heavily ;-)

[spamsink]

This will not work if "disgruntled employee" is a politically incorrect term.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

;-) Then the state might want to come up with a politically correct equivalent ;-)

I would skip the appeasement, however, regardless of its feasibility...

[spamsink]

Going back to the point, I do not see a feasible way to stop the "I don't like you" bombings, suicide or not, from happening. The IRA at least had some agenda.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

If we have a significant problem with the "I don't like you" bombings, we'll have to think about this.

I don't see how "Muslim terrorism" has anything in common with "I don't like you" bombings. It's more like Russian revolutionary terrorism of the 19th century --- there is a very well defined totalitarian revolutionary agenda behind this...

[spamsink]

I can agree with "totalitarian" and bring myself to agree with "revolutionary", but not with "very well defined". I think that the collapse of most totalitarian regimes brought them into the frustration mode, and it is scary.