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Terrorism

Which of the following do you perceive as terrorism?

  • Deliberately shooting a person to death, motivated with his nationality

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • Being a member of a terrorist organization

    Votes: 15 51.7%

  • Murdering a person with stones/fists, motivated with his nationality

    Votes: 9 31.0%

  • Bombing a foreign government's stracture/a foreign army's structure, motivated with political causes

    Votes: 16 55.2%

  • None of the above/Other(what other?)

    Votes: 8 27.6%

  • McDonald's... I'm lovin' it.

    Votes: 6 20.7%
  • Total voters
    29
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Check the actions above that you consider to be acts of terrorism.

[Wait for the poll to come up before posting your bullcrap]





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Apocalypse said:
Check the actions above that you consider to be acts of terrorism.

[Wait for the poll to come up before posting your bullcrap]





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I assume that because of his/her nationality, right?
 
repeter said:
I assume that because of his/her nationality, right?
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You expect me to tell you the right answer? :shock:

It's a survey, it's there to examine your opinion.
 
An action with the intention of instilling fear/terror in the general populace.
 
I see what you did there, but too late. "Bombing a foreign government's stracture/a foreign army's structure, motivated with political causes" could simply be war. If it is done outside the context of war, then it's terrorism, but in the context of an actual war, it's simply part of war.
 
Redress said:
I see what you did there, but too late. "Bombing a foreign government's stracture/a foreign army's structure, motivated with political causes" could simply be war. If it is done outside the context of war, then it's terrorism, but in the context of an actual war, it's simply part of war.
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I can assure you that I've designed every one of the lines in that poll so that I could get the information I want to get from those who answer them.(Well, excluding the McDonald's line, I've just ran out of stuff to write)

If I asked it that way, that's the way I intended it to be.
You wanna ask your own questions, make your own poll. :2razz:
 
By the way, in case someone is planning on getting confused with what should have been the obvious, the "Other" does not mean that you have another action to add, since those are simply selected actions and I am well aware that there are countless of other actions that would be perceived as terrorism.
 
Apocalypse said:
I can assure you that I've designed every one of the lines in that poll so that I could get the information I want to get from those who answer them.(Well, excluding the McDonald's line, I've just ran out of stuff to write)

If I asked it that way, that's the way I intended it to be.
You wanna ask your own questions, make your own poll. :2razz:
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I did not ask a question(note the lack of question marks in my post), I mentioned an ambiguity which I thought you had put in there by design.
 
Redress said:
I did not ask a question(note the lack of question marks in my post), I mentioned an ambiguity which I thought you had put in there by design.
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If I had a teddy bear I'd give it to you as a prize.

Back to the poll now.
 
Another open question, if I may(and I may):

Can a man who is not a member of a terrorist organization commit the act of terrorism?

Or must a person be a member of a terrorist organization in order for the action to be considered terrorism?
 
The first option describes nobody other than a nationalist imo.
 
MetalGear said:
The first option describes nobody other than a nationalist imo.
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Really?

Does that mean that, in your eyes, a person who'd kill another person entirely because of the killed person's nationality must be a nationalist?

Example: An Afghan immigrant to Italy opening fire in a British tea-club, killing 7 civilians out of those 6 British nationals, and he has chosen to target the place because of the residents' nationality, since he desired to kill British nationals.

Can he be something other than a nationalist?
 
winston53660 said:
An action with the intention of instilling fear/terror in the general populace.
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This.

I would add the deliberate targeting of civilians to achieve goals which can be either political or religious.
 
Apocalypse said:
Really?

Does that mean that, in your eyes, a person who'd kill another person entirely because of the killed person's nationality must be a nationalist?

Example: An Afghan immigrant to Italy opening fire in a British tea-club, killing 7 civilians out of those 6 British nationals, and he has chosen to target the place because of the residents' nationality, since he desired to kill British nationals.

Can he be something other than a nationalist?
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He'd be a mass murderer, we'd think gone a bit off his head for political reasons.
 
Apocalypse said:
Really?

Does that mean that, in your eyes, a person who'd kill another person entirely because of the killed person's nationality must be a nationalist?
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Yes? lol.
Since we are talking in terms of nationality, which doesn't equal race might i add, he cant be a racist.

Example: An Afghan immigrant to Italy opening fire in a British tea-club, killing 7 civilians out of those 6 British nationals, and he has chosen to target the place because of the residents' nationality, since he desired to kill British nationals.
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Can he be something other than a nationalist?[/QUOTE]

Sure, but i wouldn't discount it.
He probably aimed at those specific people because there nationality are the same set of people who have gone and invaded his country.
It sounds like the usual response by a pissed nationalist i would say.
 
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chevydriver1123 said:
Terrorism is when you kill innocent people typically a large group of them in order to make a political point/demands. IMO
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So you say that terrorism is the killing of innocent, uninvolved civilians for political causes.
 
MetalGear said:
Yes? lol.


Sure, but i wouldn't discount it.
He probably aimed at those specific people because there nationality are the same set of people who have gone and invaded his country.
It sounds like the usual response by a pissed nationalist i would say.
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Can you please mark what differs, in your opinion, between this man from my example and a man who you would consider a terrorist?
 
Apocalypse said:
Can you please mark what differs, in your opinion, between this man from my example and a man who you would consider a terrorist?
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Terrorists are nationalists. :shrug:
 
MetalGear said:
Terrorists are nationalists. :shrug:
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According to your opinion, but I'm quite certain that your opinion is not that all of the nationalists are terrorists, if you get my meaning.
 
Apocalypse said:
According to your opinion, but I'm quite certain that your opinion is not that all of the nationalists are terrorists, if you get my meaning.
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Yep. But id have to disagree strongly with them. If they aren't nationalists, what are they?
 
MetalGear said:
Yep. But id have to disagree strongly with them. If they aren't nationalists, what are they?
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Is the guy from my example a terrorist?
 
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