They likely don’t like their other choices. People who join (decentralized, persistent) terrorist orgs out of practical considerations believe that the current legitimized government can’t or won’t provide for them or their families (owing to clan feuds, sectarian differences, etc)
It’s a weird catch-22 that works with oppression sometimes–people always love to justify authoritarianism by saying that if people are so oppressed why aren’t they revolting, and then the second people do they get slapped with the “terrorist” label.
Long story short: Dilbert comics aside, middle managers frequently possess families and motivations for doing what they do.
