Jake Bilardi - who do we blame for him?

[i-need-a-martini]

Another event that highlights the nonsense that sometimes surrounds the young men who stupidly go off to fight with IS.

We often hear on here that the parents are to blame for bringinging their hatred of the ''infidels'' to australia and instilling it into their children. Ignoring the grief these parents are clearly suffering.

And yet here is another case that defies that logic.

A young catholic boy from a seemingly good home who gets sucked into the whole propaganda.

As Bob would say, discuss.

[cherry*135]

Hard to say what went on - what his actual intentions before he left Aust... he may have changed his mind about things from day to day, hour to hour after he left the country.

Pretty unknown territory for anyone, let alone an 18yo.

Appears he did the SBS & BBC interviews around the same time (late last year).

[curmu-curmu]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

as did Jake, expressly announce their desire for suicide, then I'd say YES...they are mentally ill.

but that's the thing - we don't know if the

decision to carry out the suicide attack was entirely his

 - remember at first he didn't want to be a suicide 

bomber because he was afraid - he instead chose to 

be a regular IS soldier.....

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Given his apparent mental issues, it's entirely possible that Jake vacillated between wanting to die, and not, every day.

The reality is though, he wanted to join IS and kill - whether that was through bombing or with a firearm, makes not a lot of difference.

Either way, even through his delusions, he was coherent enough to realize that at some stage in the very near fiuture, he was going to die. How that death was achieved is quite possibly irrelevant. The expressed wish to die was there for quite some time.