Man blows up his house and flies aeroplane into tax office

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Nobody has a "logical and rational personality", except for the patient "Elliot" (the Antonio Damasio patient).

Sand, are you seriously postulating that terrorism can only be committed by logical, rational people who are correct in their belief that their tactics will be successful in effecting the change they desire?

That has got to be the most idiotic stance on terrorism I have ever encountered, and given the number of far-right loons I know, that's saying something.

The aims of terrorism grow out of a definite agenda which may be extreme but are not illogical. The actual commission of terrorism may be carried out by people who are around the bend and lost all good sense as to the personal worth of themselves and the random victims of their acts. An agenda to reverse the policy of the IRS through an act of violence has no rational basis whatsoever and is clearly insane and I cannot view it as anything but an act of personal insanity and not, as in true terrorism, an action to carry forth an agenda through violence.

To elaborate on that a bit more, an act of terrorism is by definition an act to inspire terror. When created as an act from an organization devoted to an agenda an act of terror merely indicates the possibility of future acts of the same type in order to inspire terror. Stack, being dead from his idiocy, had no power to terrorize out of any future acts. He could inspire horror from his unique action but terror is out of the question. It simply was not an act of terror.

Really now, you launch an unfounded accusation and when called on it your "proof" is a link to a nonexistent thread where you claim I posted something "in line with militia rhetoric and thinking"? 2 years and 1300 posts and that's the most damning thing you could come up with? A thread where I discussed a clever yet unethical idea that was unrelated to militias, the vast majority of which would have nothing to do with my atheist, pro gay pro abortion ass....

Better keep digging.

killing yourself can send out a message to the media but it doesn't help the person killing themselves or their friends/family/dependents. it only hurts them immensely.

I believe a system where people are robbed or sent to prison over any sort of bills is indeed very primitive and almost medieval in morals. Send someone to prison for violence, murder, rape, and terrorism.... but robbing people of their entire life's savings and their homes or putting people in prison over bills? This sounds completely disgusting. Where is the logic in those NT's?

A heroic sacrifice. If enough people did it, either taxes or airplanes would be abolished.

I find the notion of Jihad against the tax collectors to be somewhat amusing.

ruveyn

airplanes are a lot more likely to be abolished than taxes lol