Could The Troubles have been easily avoided?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

A spot of determinism to amuse while I'm away on holiday next week. Would the removal of any of these incidents from history have stopped The Troubles in Ulster?

1- Bloody Sunday.

2- The whitewash in the Widgery inquiry into Bloody Sunday.

3- Internment.

[Kuciwalker]

I read 3 as "The Internet" at first

[Dr Strangelove]

If Britain had seriously addressed the issue of discrimination against Roman Catholic Irish in Northern Ireland before the protests began then there would have been no protests, no Bloody Sunday and therefore no "Troubles".

[TheStinger]

All 3 were a symptom of the troubles not a cause.

[Cort Haus]

No, no and no.

[Dr Strangelove]

How was the discrimination against the Irish Catholics a symptom of the troubles? It was the cause of the troubles, it was the thing against which the protestors who were gunned down were marching against. It was the product of narrow-minded Northern Irish Protestant bigotry. If the Northern Irish Protestants who owned the businesses and factories had been willing to treat their fellow citizens equally regardless of religion the standard of living for the Irish Catholics would have been much higher and there would have been no protest.

The Ford Motor Company had a factory in North Ireland which practiced equal opportunity hiring and had no labor problems until the violence in North Ireland ................... and the obsolesence of their product made contnuing production unfeasible.

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
How was the discrimination against the Irish Catholics a symptom of the troubles? It was the cause of the troubles, it was the thing against which the protestors who were gunned down were marching against. It was the product of narrow-minded Northern Irish Protestant bigotry. If the Northern Irish Protestants who owned the businesses and factories had been willing to treat their fellow citizens equally regardless of religion the standard of living for the Irish Catholics would have been much higher and there would have been no protest.

The Ford Motor Company had a factory in North Ireland which practiced equal opportunity hiring and had no labor problems until the violence in North Ireland ................... and the obsolesence of their product made contnuing production unfeasible.

I never said it was. I was replying to the 3 specific events stated by Laz.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by TheStinger
All 3 were a symptom of the troubles not a cause.

I don't agree. There was a massive upscaling of violence as a reaction to Bloody Sunday and the Widgery Report. It was the final straw that led to the IRA's mainland bombing campaign, which in turn ushered in internment.