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Submitted by Dancingdego60 on November 29, 2005
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“Moral understanding”
Terrorism: insurgency or acts of aggression?
During the French Revolution Maximilien Robespierre led the Jacobin party along with leaders of France’s own government. They targeted people whom they believed supported the return of a monarchy style government. They where sought out, arrested and butchered without trial. The dead were buried in mass graves. The Jacobin party used violence against potentially dangerous groups in order to protect liberty and subdue tyranny. Four hundred thousand people of varying social classes and political views were imprisoned and forty thousand were executed within a year. A speech given in February of 1794 Robespierre said, “Subdue by terror the enemies of liberty, and you will be right, as founders of the Republic. The government of the revolution is liberty’s repression against tyranny.” Today modern terrorists turn to Robespierre’s idea that violence is needed to protect and liberate citizens from an allegedly tyrannical government. Terrorism can be justified through the social, political religious and moral values of the perpetrator; because in the world that we live in today, there is no right or wrong way to think and there is no standard of moral, political, religious, and social values.
To fully understand terrorism you have to know what it means. Terrorism is defined as the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature. People view terrorism single-mindedly; it is not just a group with social or political aspirations killing anyone who is in their way. No, it is in a sense a more direct way to get what you want. Your only argument against terrorism is its moral infractions.
As stated earlier terrorism was used in the French Revolution as a weapon against one another and ultimately against all the French. Under totalitarian regimes it becomes the part of...
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