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The Real Doctor

On 26/08/11 12:51, d wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:47:03 +0100
The Real 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.

If they beat someone up to show that "We don't like faggots round here"
or "We don't like veiled Muslims round here" or "We don't like white
people round here" then the big pictures is certainly there.

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.

So are you saying you /don't/ think that terrorist crimes are worse than
the same acts for purely personal reasons?

Ian