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[Aegon]

That's why I said "not necessarily". Because, technically, there is more than one definition. For the most part, yes, it can be politically motivated, but terrorism can also be religiously motivated, sexually motivated and motivated in other ways.

Essentially, anytime a person or group of persons terrorize others, it is considered terrorism.

That's a bit far-fetched, though. Sexually motivated? No, in my mind it's either got something to do with involving a certain big number of people, a public area, significant damage to property or anything like that. And even then it wouldn't seem right to call it terrorism unless it involved some ideological motivation(like politics, religion and so on). Otherwise it would just be a normal crime/happening. I could instill fear in someone and "terrorize them", but that wouldn't be an act of terrorism, lol.

People have been debating the definition of "terrorism" for a long time. Most political scientists think that in order for something to be considered terrorism it has to be an act or threat of violence by non state actors against (mostly) non combatants for the purpose of achieving specific political goals.