http://stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com/2011/01/stochastic-t...
There is no such thing.
Please stop linking to articles promoting this discredited concept. Just because someone has an interesting idea doesn't make it true!
But by those monikers, it's not only a recognized process, it's a legal issue with ramifications.
Osama bin Laden never killed anyone. His words were enough to justify his execution by the military of a foreign nation because he engaged in incitement.
Although, I understand your point. However, and I would like to say that I do not know the details of this, OBL was originally charged with the killing of Silvan Becker, a German intelligence agent and his wife Vera in Libya. That was against him specifically. Now, I am not sure if he actually pulled the trigger or was involved in some other way.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11079811310126284...
Remember when one of his fans mailed pipe bombs to a bunch of journalists?
one might add that, inaction (failure to condemn an act) can be as powerful a signal as action (calling for a specific act). This lack of condemnation has the signature of the current political elite all over (Trump's failure to condemn Christopher Paul Hasson, or saying "there is blame on both sides" in Charlottesville are very real examples).
No matter what you believe, or what he believed, evil is only ever done by human hands and in this case those hands were moved by a world view and belief system that were outlined in a (absurd) 78+ page "manifesto." We can not afford to ignore this fact. Nor can we afford to ignore that as with any line of thinking about the world there are many other people who have adjacent and related beliefs. Yes, it might be the case that what makes people who think that way into killers is "nihilistic sociopath[y]" but the unfeeling among them are raised and encouraged by a whole community. That's the real reason why I think it's important to look past the incident in isolation and remember:
This man has a community.
We can't undo what happened but we can each individually make an effort to understand why people end up in that community, how to identify them, and hopefully how to keep our sons from ending up there in order to keep another such atrocity from happening again. Part of that is, as you say, by "wholesale-reject that outrageous, inhumane way of thinking". It just seems clear to me that it must be actively rejected. We must actively deplatform and remove people who parrot what he did from our community. To that end we must understand why it is and has been for hundreds of years so alluring to people that it leads a subset of them to some of the worst violence humanity perpetrates.
The oppressed can never afford to ignore the beliefs and, yes, ideologies of their oppressors.
Ideologies tend to lead to fanaticism, embracing a simplified and rigid view of social reality.
I'm particularly wary of all the *-isms.
My point was more to be cautious of those who are very strict from the theoretical side of the said ideologies in their purest form.
And in any case, you can't really do anything interesting alone so it's better, in my opinion, to believe in others.