Okay....Lets say that in your first post you were playing 'Devils advocate' only I failed to pick that up & reacted like you were G Bush Jr...
Where there were a connection between two incidents,identifiable cause & effect , the definitions would come into theirown. As you say this does...
Yeah sorry Maaaan-I thought you were one o' them military assholes-I was only partly right ! :rofl::smilielol5:
You see what it is I'm trying to get at. I needed to 'reality test' it & I value your opinion . If it causes more problems than it solves I'll...
You've a valid point. My definitions are generalised,not specific to a given incident. As you know,Im opposed to calling the willful killing of...
Lol indeed ! My sincere apologiesAmericanTerrorist I got wrong end of the stick !
I'd hardly call 23 pages of healthy debate a disaster & were it so why are you contributing to it ?
No I'm trying to qualify relative moral positions to encourage clearer understanding , at risk of sounding pretensious.
Thank you, being called a 'Hippy' by someone like you is a compliment ! I take it that you are a Military Man/Woman of some experience-at least in...
Thanks Willy Blue , I have to agree, Ive witness it. If I'd thought of these definitions earlier the title of this thread might have read better !...
Much of what you say in your first paragragh I can relate to the situation we faced in the Right vs Left struggles in the UK during the 70s & 80s....
Maybe we should be campaigning to change the popular definititions in use when we speak of 'Terror'. Actions taken by the USA , UK & their Allies...
Maybe we should be campaigning first to change the definitions we use when speaking of 'Terror' ; the actions of the USA,UK & Allies against the...
Ive often wondered what would happen if someone stood as a 'No Vote Candidate'-somewhere you could place your vote to protest that no one standing...
I entirely agree.I'm not against religion or spiritual experience, but medievil dogmas hold us back & cause division & exclusiveness .We need to...
Terrorism ,if it means killing innosents, is crime. Motivation becomes irrelevant.
Thats just it ,we'v gota get that back into politics !
Terror pre-dates democracy & it maybe that the latter was humankinds first attempt to address the chaos & threat of the former. Theres an...
Agreed rihangover ,we've got a mountain range to climb over to get us out of this mess but we've gota try. Have lota mixed feelings about even...
Wow! I'm no expert on Irish history & if Ive made mistakes in what Ive said then they are genuine. But to call me an Orangeman ? On what...
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