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Thread #160853   Message #3819068
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
08-Nov-16 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nationalism - a good or bad thing?
Subject: RE: BS: Nationalism - a good or bad thing?
That 20% figure came from a Sun story distorting the results of a poll asking if people felt some sympathy with young people going off to fight in Syria.

The problem is, that didn't distinguish between those who might have taken "sympathy with" as meaning they agreed with those young people, and those who might have taken it to mean having some pity for them. And it didn't even distinguish between whether question referred just who might have gone to Syria to fight for Isis or also to those who have gone to fight against it.

Don't we all feel a degree of pity for young people who do things like that with their lives?