Definition of terrorism is that it is used in the pursuit of political aims. What were the political aims in Vegas?
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One death is not more wrong than another, but someone needs to tell Merriam-Webster if we are going to change the meaning of words.
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You can't deny that the Vegas shooting didn't cause terror. The definition is manipulated.
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Simply speaking, the effect doesn't define the motive. Earthquakes cause terror but that doesn't make them terrorism. Terrorism is political
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My apologies. Human made events. There could be an argument for natural terrorism tho.But that makes the word difficult to use in politics
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Its only application is political. The manipulation would be to use it otherwise. Could argue but wld need clarification in those other apps
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I think an example would be domestic violence. It's meant to instill terror, but not political in nature. Grotesque yes but not terrorism.
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Again, nonsense. You're changing definitions based on who does it! You can't pick and choose!
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Or we could focus on fixing the issue instead of how we categorize it.
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The problem determines what the possible solutions are. If people are miscategorizing the problem then the attempts at problem-solving fail
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Great point!
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the guy in Vegas basically was a mass murderer--he just hated humans. the guy in the truck was doing it for ISIS & said so.
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I can't understand somes logic. I'm not being sarcastic, genuinely curious: so if a lone black/brown man killed of sheer human hatred, 1/2..
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...would he be a "terrorist"?? Or just a crazy guy?? We all know why Isis kill and their affiliation. Someone help me here....2/2.
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The legal definition of terrorism requires some sort of political aim. The New York driver did it for Isis. We still don't know the Vegas
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Isis didn't do it. Some random dude did it in the name of ISIS.
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