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Can acts of terrorism ever be justified?

Can acts of terrorism ever be justified?. Definition: violence, the threat of violence, or other harmful acts committed for political or ideological goals. Causes: to force political change by convincing a government or population to agree to demands

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Can acts of terrorism ever be justified?

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  1. Can acts of terrorism ever be justified? Definition: violence, the threat of violence, or other harmful acts committed for political or ideological goals. Causes: to force political change by convincing a government or population to agree to demands motivating a disgruntled population to join an uprising / revolution escalating a conflict in the hopes of disrupting the status quo expressing a grievance drawing attention to a cause

  2. Justified • Protection of one’s civil rights, community and property (e.g natives against their invaders) • ‘Just assassination’ of a despot or tyrant who causes the lives of many others • Coups/uprising against corrupt governments which control the military • Revenge / retributive killing (in defence of a nation / religion’s honour) • Acts of desperation when an agenda can’t be attained through socially-acceptable means (suicide bombings aren’t always religiously-motivated) • the most effective and efficient way to reach a desired goal BS

  3. Not justified • All religions uphold the sanctity of human life. It is God-given and can only be taken by God • It is criminal in any constitution to take life (ironically in war this law is violated) • Many innocent civilians are victims as a result of terrorist acts • It is often driven by emotion and passion which lacks the rational solutions which treaties or bilateral talks propose • It is based on threat and fear which only aggravates disorder • If ultimately the motivation for terrorism is greed or personal revenge SF

  4. Incidents of Apparent Terrorism • Munich Massacrein West Germany, 1972: Olympic Israeli athletes held hostage and 11 subsequently killed by Palestinian terrorists demanding the release of 234 Palestinians and non-Arabs jailedin Israel • Tamil Tigers Attack, January 31, 1996: Members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rammed an explosives-laden truck into the Central Bank in the heart of downtown Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 90 civilians and injuring more than 1,400 others, including 2 US citizens. • Taliban hostage crisis Jul,2007: extremists held 23 S Korean civilians in a reprisal against US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 • and many more…

  5. Conclusion • So long as international society does not effectively guarantee the rights of men against the arbitrariness and oppression by governments, it cannot oblige states to treat subversive activities as a crime. • In other words, consider the paradox that terrorism is sometimes a reactive solution to war

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