Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
I should have said that I may have misunderstood that you thought they were achieving those objectives, and of course I didn't believe you could be thinking that. So that's that bit sorted.

The bigly point is that I do not see that the distinction of political aims stops them all being terrorists. Footballers and cricketers are both subsets of the category sportsmen. Ultra-right-wing terrorists and Islamist terrorists are subsets of the category terrorists. I don't see why this should seem mysterious.
I tend to think of terrorists as affiliated to a particular group, though. I mean, if I were to decide that my political goal was the freedom to abuse monty, and if I raped him at gunpoint to further my goal, that wouldn't make me a terrorist, would it? It would make me a lone nutter. A sexually gratified lone nutter, admittedly, but a lone nutter nonetheless.

I appreciate that this is a rather strange analogy but I was taken by the mental image of me raping monty at gunpoint.

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