Can anyone think of a reason that would justify terrorism?

Question

I can not.

Answer 1

Hypothetically, lets say a bunch of armed men who were representatives of a govt. showed up at your house, ordered you to leave with only the clothes on your back and report to a refugee camp where there was no electricity, food, or running water.

What would you do then?

Take that kind of treatment or fight back?

Answer 2

Desperation, really. If you've been defeated by a superior force, but still have the will to resist, you resort to guerilla warfare. If you're even more desperate than that, you might resort to terrorism.

I don't know if that really justifies it - but it's concievable an otherwise rational person could be pushed that far.


Mostly, though, the justifications actually used depend on re-defining morality. It's not wrong, because the people you're blowing up are evil, or not people at all. It's justified because God told me you should do it. Etc...

Answer 3

terrorism isn't even justified by those committing it, as they would not consider it terrorism. whoever you call a terrorist, someone else calls a freedom fighter. with very few exceptions, they normally have a genuine cause. it only really becomes "terrorism", when you target the general public, instead of those your against. but even then, they often find a reason, or excuse to deem them "legitimate" targets.

Answer 4

There is no justifiable reason for terrorism.

Answer 5

......and I am in mutual agreement with you.....there is NOT a single justifiable reason for the heinous, brutal and horrible acts committed against fellow earthlings through terrorism.....the fervor put behind the conception and fruition of these crimes should be used with the same intensity in finding a solution to global warming.....not a single reason.....

Answer 6

No REASON can jastify terror. But real politics does.
Any action that involves FORCE can not be measred by logic, some one out there should have been doing something un-acceptable to logics and reasons. When individuals or communities or governments do things based REAL POLITICS and when the "others" does not agree to that then they need to TALK ,(Talk=reasoning) to find out who did or doing wrong.
When they scape the reasons, then they need a third party to JUDGE , when there is no third party then they go to CONFILICT.
Confilict in this context is about KILLING or getting KILLED. Now, the very basics of this, when ones life is exposed to confilict, there are no rules to that, each side would do what ever they can to scape being KILLED and achieve KILLING.
Now some body there has made rules for this fundumental sence of struggle of KILLING. That some body says, that you should have UNIFORMS to do that otherwise it is illegal.
An organised army, with all kinds of weapons, airplanes, ships, and strategic and well managed leadership has introduced to us as the legall KILLERS, since we are convinced to agree that there should be rules of CONFILICT.
The only reason that UNIFORMS are accepted as the rule is because the ones who made the rules where those who were looking for profisional KILLERS and they could managed to have ARMIES. Those who used thier MINDS and REASONS to develop WEAPONS, to find ways of how to sell them.

Now, any ORGANISED KILLINGS by such ARMIES is called matters of ACCURACY. all thousands of civilians dying every day as the result of ORGANISED bomings of UNIFORMED KILLERS will not be jidged as the modern minds of humanity is as blind as to smell the smell of blood. as they look MODERN and legall to them.
Terror is ILLEGAL and cant be judged by reasons since it is not in the rules of those who defined the rules of KILLINGS and we are convinced "Yes, that is right". The different between KILLINGS by those UNIFORMED MODERN KILLERS and those dengerous beard wilds is that: The ARMY KILLERS find the money for thier movements from OUR pockets that we call it TAXES and it is totally LEGAL according to rules of modern humanity since our POLITICIANS ensures that at the end it will al happen to the INTEREST of our nation, in other words to the interest of those who paid TAXES. And the money for terror is comming out of pocktes of some individuals some where, those who were trained by OUR TAX money long ago. it was totally LEGAL since at that time again they were train to KILL Russians for the INTEREST our nation.

Nothing will ever justify terror nor KILLINGS.
But Petrol mixed with the blood of Iraqies would encourage them.

Answer 7

Terrorism is asymmetric warfare. I cannot imagine ever being able to bring myself to commit an act of terrorism, but its a little too facile to just say "terrorism is bad." Bombing civilians from 15,000 feet is just as reprehensible as bombing them in a cafe.

Answer 8

First of all you have to define "terrorism"...

When Bush and Blair go into Afghanistan and Iraq, they are "liberating", BUT for the people living there, B & B are the terrorist!!!

When people in Kashmir fight for their land as per UN resolution, they call themselves "freedom fighters", but India calls them "terrorist"...

Whose side are you on???

Answer 9

NO! If you can justify killing innocent people and try to make the WORLD not just Western Civilization follow Islam. Something is wrong.

Answer 10

If a foriegn Army occupied our land.
They threw your family out of thier home and sent them into overcrowded camps where there were no jobs, education, or health care. Trashed your religion and culture.
Then move foriegners into your property and gave them your job.

I think I'd fight