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Honest question. Is this act of terrorism? If not why?

• fishnchips 12y ago
  1) No. 2) Because it does not attempt to advance any political agenda.
  • zk00006 12y ago
    So this means that his reason must be personal and important only to himself. That leaves me wondering, what personal reason can one have to do such a thing?
    • ptaipale 12y ago
      It may come down more to a "state of mind" than "personal reason". I.e. nothing very rational. I guess investigators will look at his relationships, communications with other people before the flight, and so on.
• sz4kerto 12y ago
  From Wikipedia: "Terrorism is commonly defined as violent acts (or the threat of violent acts) intended to create fear (terror), perpetrated for a religious, political, or ideological goal, and which deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (e.g., neutral military personnel or civilians)." This guy is a mass murdered, not a terrorist (in the usual sense of the word).
• sangnoir 12y ago
  > Terrorism is commonly defined as violent acts (or the threat of violent acts) intended to create fear (terror) It depends on the motivation of the pilot i.e. Did he intend to create fear? At this point the motivations remain unclear, so it can't be termed an act of terrorism.
• roel_v 12y ago
  Depends on whether the intent was to instill fear on the population at large (fear of something).
• beefsack 12y ago
  It'd be playing semantics, "terrorism" seems to mean something different to each person that applies it anyway.