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The terrorists were explicitly inducing the fearmonger response, no?
by hoseja 3y ago
The terrorists were explicitly inducing the fearmonger response, no?
- sokoloff 3y agoYes, but that doesn’t obligate us to indulge them.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoYes and no? Terrorism is generally used against an enemy when actual military action is not possible. The intent would normally be to steer government action via basically public pressure. So the purpose is not the inconvenience or intrusiveness of counter terrorism precautions, that is just a side effect. Though most modern terrorism is likely a weird edge case rooted in an overly literal interpretation of a certain book which did not consider the case of a distant empire when it was designed, and therefore the terrorism has no logical game theoretic explanation (unlike, say, the IRA).