Is Terrorism Ever Morally Defensible? The term terrorism has many different definitions. The most accurate definition of terrorism is defined as the use of violence and intimidation‚ especially for political purposes.1 Terrorism is based on an act of violence. It kills‚ hurts or injures many people who are innocent for the reason of making a point or for political objectives. Most of the acts of violence caused from terrorism is either manipulated by another person or leader or is intended
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Algiers‚ my definitions of terrorism could be summarized as a strategic act of using violence‚ by an individual or a group‚ to gain attention of people very quickly and to basically get their point across. These people choose the way of violence and arrogance directed against the peaceful people. The people who practice violence against the others to make an influence on government in order to reach their financial or political goals are called terrorists. Their actions are called terrorism. Freedom
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In the past years‚ terrorism has increased quite gradually‚ in both attacks and fatalities. Source 2 shows a graph comparing the number of Jihadist attacks Pre British and American invasion to post invasion stats. The pre invasion statistics shows that there were just 25 worldwide whereas post invasion there was a drastic increase in attacks to 200 per year. Source 20 shows the number of terrorist attack incidents and fatalities from the 1st of October 1998 through to the 8th of November 2006. From
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Terrorism Terrorism is a major issue that affects all people all around the world. Terrorism has been a part of life for many countries like England‚ the United States‚ Syria‚ and Israel. In all of those countries and many more‚ thousands upon thousands of people have died. Bombings at the world trade center‚ the numerous attacks happening currently in the Middle East‚ and the letter bombs in the United Kingdom have shown us that terrorism and terrorist aren’t petty little things we can just brush
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Terrorism is a global problem. Hunter S. Thompson said‚ “Terrorists don’t wear uniforms‚ and they play by inscrutable rules — The Rules of World War III‚ which has already begun." There is no doubt that terrorism offsets a society’s balance‚ and that it will continue until appropriate measures are taken to prevent it. What is terrorism? This is not an easy term to define while covering all of its important aspects and features. The American Heritage Dictionary describes it as‚ “the unlawful
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Barstow Community College Terrorism in the World Today Leia Noelle Edwards POLY 1 Professor Macias Due By May 17th‚ 2013 Leia Edwards POLI 1 Term Paper 3 May 2013 Terrorism in Today ’s World There are a few different definitions of terrorism in society. One interpretation is the “use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce‚ especially for political purposes.” (Dictionary
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Terrorism For this article terrorism is defined as: The use of violence to physically and psychologically terrorize a population by an individual or a group in order to draw attention to a cause‚ enact political change‚ or gain political power. -------------------------------------------------- State terrorism defines any violent action initiated by an existing government to achieve a particular goal. Most often this goal involves a conflict with another country. Non political terrorism is
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Origin of term "Terrorism" comes from the French word terrorism‚ and originally referred specifically to state terrorism as practiced by the French government during the Reign of terror. The French word terrorism in turn derives from the Latin verb terreō meaning “I frighten”. The terror cimbricus was a panic and state of emergency in Rome in response to the approach of warriors of the Cimbri tribe in 105 BC. The Jacobin cited this precedent when imposing a Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
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excuse”; in this case that fault is terrorism. Terrorism is the use of any violence‚ or intimidation that targets‚ or endangers‚ another individual’s civil liberties‚ politics‚ or government. Terrorism takes violence to an extreme level with no logical reason‚ or methodology. Terrorism is an excuse for the weak minded‚ who would rather assert their “authority” or “position” through violence‚ rather than finding innovative ways of dealing with their problems. Is terrorism ever justifiable? I would have
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“Terrorism is the weapon of the oppressed” “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well‚ there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.” ― Noam Chomsky In any set up there are legitimate‚ legal and peaceful means of expressing displeasure and disapproval of certain policies in a country. Peaceful demonstrations were successfully employed
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