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> or to be more accurate fundamentalist

It's also noted that engineers are overrepresented among terrorists. [0]

I think it's because engineers believe that there really is such a thing as a coherent, all-encompassing political philosophy that will yield strictly best outcomes for a given set of constraints.

They're basically porting their mindset from a technical endeavour to a sociopolitical one.

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/11/theres-a-good-reason-wh...



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