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Don't understand why people are taking offense. Whether you sympathize with the killing or not, killing someone because you believe what they do harms the soci
by yongjik 2y ago
Don't understand why people are taking offense. Whether you sympathize with the killing or not, killing someone because you believe what they do harms the society is a textbook case of political terrorism. If, say, someone kills a prime minister in Europe for their country's foreign policy, nobody will have any problem calling it an act of terrorism.
- sillyfluke 2y agoYou may not condone it, but it is relatively easy to understand. No collateral damage, single victim -- people get flustered when there is attempted moral equivalence with the goto decaptitating standins of Al Q and Islamic State brigades and acts with indiscriminate collateral damage. >nobody will have any problem calling it an act of terrorism Perhaps, but this slightly different than saying "people will prefer to call it an act of terrorism". I'm pretty sure that, depending on degree to which the prime minister or leader is deemed "authoritarian", some people and some media outlets will prefer to call it an "assasination".
- nico 2y ago> someone kills a prime minister in Europe Sure. And the law here also says that if someone kills a politician, they can be charged with terrorism But the law doesn’t say anything about CEOs or other private citizens Sure, charge the guy with all the murder counts you want, but terrorism is a big stretch However, “never let a good crisis go to waste”. So the terrorism concept is going to get milked here for sure