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This might be valid for a very limited subset of terrorists, but the kinds we are seeing today (IS, Boko Haram, ...) do not have these goals. Their main goals a
by efdee 9y ago
This might be valid for a very limited subset of terrorists, but the kinds we are seeing today (IS, Boko Haram, ...) do not have these goals. Their main goals are the eradication of dissenters and the collecting of power over others.
If you blow up people waiting in line in an airport, going to a concert, or visiting a nightclub, you are dead wrong. There is not much wiggle room here.
If everyone who feels they are don't have a way of making themselves heard (whether or not that thought is valid) just starts harming unrelated people, we can just do away with society completely.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoYeah if your goal is really peace and safety, maybe going around blowing innocents up isn't such a great way of achieving that.
- boomboomsubban 9y ago>If everyone who feels they are don't have a way of making themselves heard (whether or not that thought is valid) just starts harming unrelated people, we can just do away with society completely. So... The US starts the Iraq War, thousands die, society goes away completely, and then ISIS show up? These groups didn't just decide to start these campaigns, their lives got progressively worse and they sought something that might improve it.
- efdee 9y agoThey sought and they decided on the wrong thing - killing innocent civilians in a campaign to strike fear. I know there are innocent casualties when we wage war, but that is not the same as what is happening here.