On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:47:03 +0100
The Real Doctor wrote:
You must surely have worked out that the point of terrorism - the
definition of terrorism - is to intimidate people beyond the immediate
circle of victims of a particular crime. When the IRA were blowing up

I doubt many thugs consider the big picture when beating up someone they
don't like. Calling it terrorism is a cynical way of gaining political
traction, nothing more.

So the initial crime stands, of course, and should be punished, but the
additional crime of terrorising the population also deserves punishment.
Don't you agree?

Ah , a classic technique. Slightly change the argument to get me to agree
to it then claim later how I agreed to the original point. Nice try

Are you for real? You're coming across as a poor satire.

What else would you call a deliberate attempt to intimidate a subsection
of the population?

Except it wasn't.

You may care to read a little about cognitive dissonance. It's what
happens when people try to hold two opposing ideas. Not generally a

Except I don't.

Got anything else in your box of tricks or is that it? In the meantime I
have work to do.

B2003