it’s an ongoing and horrifying
phenomenon that plagues mankind on a far
too regular basis welcome to
watchmojo.com and we’re counting down
our picks for the top 5 most
thought-provoking facts about terrorism
discussion surrounding terrorism takes
place on the news in the classroom and
at the dinner table and a well-informed
understanding of its history meaning and
philosophy may prove helpful when
forming an opinion number 5 there isn’t
an exact definition of terrorism
tersh
who said we were terrorists the word
terrorism is far more likely to be used
politically than empirically that’s
because it’s definition is fluid with
the FBI stating that violent and
unlawful acts against human life and the
intention to coerce civilian populations
or government policy are the main
qualifiers for terrorism from there it
really depends on how you look at the
situation in many cases for example
during the Reagan administration the
Afghan mujahideen were given aid from
the u.s. to help fight the Soviet Union
they were actually referred to as
freedom fighters several decades later a
new generation of Afghan fighters
emerged who are unanimously referred to
as terrorists by the West more recently
after the July 2016 shooting in Dallas
law enforcement officials and the White
House refused to label the shooter Myka
Johnson a terrorist because he was not
connected with a foreign terror
organization when negotiations broke
down more gunfire erupted that’s when
police decided to end the standoff
sending in a remote-controlled robot
like this number four terrorism comes
from both right wing and left wing
extremists close the door I thought it
was the other side to drop bombs as
mentioned earlier terrorism can be a
highly political word and tragic events
are sometimes used to point out the
flaws of those across the political
aisle
President Obama is quote directly
responsible for the Orlando shooting
because Obama allowed the growth of Isis
under his presidency truth is there are
countless examples of terrorism from
both rights and left-wing extremist
groups organizations such as the World
Church of the creator and the Aryan
Nations strive for racial supremacy and
small government with violence sometimes
used as a catalyst on the other hand
left-wing extremists such as the Mexican
zapatista army of national liberation
and the Earth Liberation Front strive to
protect people from the likes of
capitalism and imperialism there is also
a third type known as special interest
terrorism which focuses more on a
specific issue rather than a broader
political revolution although overlap
does take place at times sometimes when
you see things you love being destroyed
you just want to destroy those things
number three the majority of terrorist
attacks take place in just a few
trees in 2012 a University of Maryland
study found that there were more than
15,000 deaths a year from terrorist
attacks while this number is certainly
unsettling the real kicker was where
exactly these attacks took place
Pakistan Iraq and Afghanistan laid claim
to approximately 54% of attacks and 58
percent of fatalities terrorism is
understandably a major concern for many
but in reality most developed countries
are far from harm’s way
for example statistics from the Centers
for Disease Control showed that
Americans are about thirty five thousand
times more likely to die from heart
disease than a terrorist attack number
two counter terrorism can become its own
form of terrorism as people this want to
destroy it
forget peace for now we have to show
them we’re strong Richard Jackson a UCLA
professor has argued that there are four
conditions that can lead to
counter-terrorist efforts becoming acts
of terror a failure to distinguish
between innocent and guilty highly
disproportionate retribution
intimidation of a wider population and a
specific political agenda are all
factors that may result in a different
breed of terrorism from the powers that
be when children from other countries
are telling us that we’ve made them fear
the sky it might be time to ask some
hard questions counter-terrorist efforts
in Tunisia have been cited as an example
of this in late 2014 and Isis suicide
bombing of his security forces transport
led to an excessive counterterrorism
response that saw approximately 1% of
the population arrested in the first
half of 2015 number one some
philosophers believe terrorism can be
morally justified violence can be used
for good what are you talking about
justice it would be hard to imagine the
debate in our newsrooms and political
outlets changing from was this attack
terrorism to was this terrorist attack
justified but that’s exactly the sort of
question that philosophers often ask
it’s an our self-interest to deny that
it can ever be justified to kill you and
me and people like us and since most
people are like us it’s in everyone’s
self-interest terrorist groups like the
Italian Red Brigades have long followed
the doctrine that
Islands should be used when it
constitutes the most efficient and
essential instrument without which the
revolution cannot succeed
consequentialist philosophers like Kayal
s’en believe that the question of
whether an active terrorist violence is
justified must be answered based on its
outcomes regardless of if the victims
were innocent
or not others argue that targeting
innocent people can never be justified
since terrorists always have the
alternative of targeting their opponents
military establishment this debate is
nuanced and multifaceted and we’ve just
barely scratched the surface here some
people say we can’t afford to be
civilized I’ve always resisted such
people because I don’t know who these
maniacs are and where they come from so
a youtube comment section is probably
one of the worst places to discuss this
but what the hell do you think terrorism
can never be morally justified like the
Revolutionary War you know what I mean
one man’s terrorist is another man’s
patriot in it for more empirical toptenz
and unforgiveable top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com every
civilization finds it necessary to
negotiate compromises with its own
values
you
phenomenon that plagues mankind on a far
too regular basis welcome to
watchmojo.com and we’re counting down
our picks for the top 5 most
thought-provoking facts about terrorism
discussion surrounding terrorism takes
place on the news in the classroom and
at the dinner table and a well-informed
understanding of its history meaning and
philosophy may prove helpful when
forming an opinion number 5 there isn’t
an exact definition of terrorism
tersh
who said we were terrorists the word
terrorism is far more likely to be used
politically than empirically that’s
because it’s definition is fluid with
the FBI stating that violent and
unlawful acts against human life and the
intention to coerce civilian populations
or government policy are the main
qualifiers for terrorism from there it
really depends on how you look at the
situation in many cases for example
during the Reagan administration the
Afghan mujahideen were given aid from
the u.s. to help fight the Soviet Union
they were actually referred to as
freedom fighters several decades later a
new generation of Afghan fighters
emerged who are unanimously referred to
as terrorists by the West more recently
after the July 2016 shooting in Dallas
law enforcement officials and the White
House refused to label the shooter Myka
Johnson a terrorist because he was not
connected with a foreign terror
organization when negotiations broke
down more gunfire erupted that’s when
police decided to end the standoff
sending in a remote-controlled robot
like this number four terrorism comes
from both right wing and left wing
extremists close the door I thought it
was the other side to drop bombs as
mentioned earlier terrorism can be a
highly political word and tragic events
are sometimes used to point out the
flaws of those across the political
aisle
President Obama is quote directly
responsible for the Orlando shooting
because Obama allowed the growth of Isis
under his presidency truth is there are
countless examples of terrorism from
both rights and left-wing extremist
groups organizations such as the World
Church of the creator and the Aryan
Nations strive for racial supremacy and
small government with violence sometimes
used as a catalyst on the other hand
left-wing extremists such as the Mexican
zapatista army of national liberation
and the Earth Liberation Front strive to
protect people from the likes of
capitalism and imperialism there is also
a third type known as special interest
terrorism which focuses more on a
specific issue rather than a broader
political revolution although overlap
does take place at times sometimes when
you see things you love being destroyed
you just want to destroy those things
number three the majority of terrorist
attacks take place in just a few
trees in 2012 a University of Maryland
study found that there were more than
15,000 deaths a year from terrorist
attacks while this number is certainly
unsettling the real kicker was where
exactly these attacks took place
Pakistan Iraq and Afghanistan laid claim
to approximately 54% of attacks and 58
percent of fatalities terrorism is
understandably a major concern for many
but in reality most developed countries
are far from harm’s way
for example statistics from the Centers
for Disease Control showed that
Americans are about thirty five thousand
times more likely to die from heart
disease than a terrorist attack number
two counter terrorism can become its own
form of terrorism as people this want to
destroy it
forget peace for now we have to show
them we’re strong Richard Jackson a UCLA
professor has argued that there are four
conditions that can lead to
counter-terrorist efforts becoming acts
of terror a failure to distinguish
between innocent and guilty highly
disproportionate retribution
intimidation of a wider population and a
specific political agenda are all
factors that may result in a different
breed of terrorism from the powers that
be when children from other countries
are telling us that we’ve made them fear
the sky it might be time to ask some
hard questions counter-terrorist efforts
in Tunisia have been cited as an example
of this in late 2014 and Isis suicide
bombing of his security forces transport
led to an excessive counterterrorism
response that saw approximately 1% of
the population arrested in the first
half of 2015 number one some
philosophers believe terrorism can be
morally justified violence can be used
for good what are you talking about
justice it would be hard to imagine the
debate in our newsrooms and political
outlets changing from was this attack
terrorism to was this terrorist attack
justified but that’s exactly the sort of
question that philosophers often ask
it’s an our self-interest to deny that
it can ever be justified to kill you and
me and people like us and since most
people are like us it’s in everyone’s
self-interest terrorist groups like the
Italian Red Brigades have long followed
the doctrine that
Islands should be used when it
constitutes the most efficient and
essential instrument without which the
revolution cannot succeed
consequentialist philosophers like Kayal
s’en believe that the question of
whether an active terrorist violence is
justified must be answered based on its
outcomes regardless of if the victims
were innocent
or not others argue that targeting
innocent people can never be justified
since terrorists always have the
alternative of targeting their opponents
military establishment this debate is
nuanced and multifaceted and we’ve just
barely scratched the surface here some
people say we can’t afford to be
civilized I’ve always resisted such
people because I don’t know who these
maniacs are and where they come from so
a youtube comment section is probably
one of the worst places to discuss this
but what the hell do you think terrorism
can never be morally justified like the
Revolutionary War you know what I mean
one man’s terrorist is another man’s
patriot in it for more empirical toptenz
and unforgiveable top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com every
civilization finds it necessary to
negotiate compromises with its own
values
you
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