Were the Tsarnaevs nuts or revolutionaries?

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12. Yes, certainly because we must comfort ourselves and assuage fear

with beliefs that are plastic enough to conform to our needs.

Those beliefs include, among other things, a sense that:

1) The threat is over.

Making the Tsarnaev brothers part of a bigger plot not only denies us peace of mind it suggests there is an enemy to be dealt with.

2) Bad people do bad things to good people.

In 2013, in a world sophisticated enough to grasp that "justification" is relative, it is unacceptable to leave on the table the notion that the Tsarnaevs were in any way loyal soldiers in a cause. For this rationalization of the incomprehensible occurrence of bad things, the perpetrators must be defined as a quality of people less good/more diseased than the rest of us.

Less than 20 minutes after the Boston bombing a former FBI profiler was on MSNBC using terms relating to mental defect to communicate that he as a pundit profiler was on the side of 'US' and the perpetrators were a defective less good them.