(August 29, 2020 at 10:20 am)WinterHold Wrote:(August 29, 2020 at 8:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Your confusing actions with the emotions that precipitate them.
Breivik wanted Muslims out of Europe. This is a goal.
Tarrant wanted a gun rights war (the shooting kind) in the US. This is a goal.
The 9-11 people (and those who followed them) wanted the US out the Middle East. This is a goal.
The IRA wanted the re-unification of Ireland. This is a goal.
'Terrorism' isn't simply violence, it is violence towards a political end. Shooting people simply because you like to watch them run away may be a terrifying act, but it isn't terrorism.
Boru
But one of the definite conclusions of a person getting emotions repressed inside them is their burst in the form of "actions", just like a toddler kicking and crying when they fail at something, or a grownup crying and kicking the door when they are frustrated.
I'm saying that both terrorists got frustrated with something -or a series of things- that led them to outburst their negative, fatal emotions.
The so called "goals" they claimed serving are a mere mirage, just a ghost to encapsulate their outburst with a justification.
Humans love to justify the disasters they do; some will tell you they raped their girlfriend "because they loved her", others will tell you the beat their kids because "they wanted them to be perfect", others will tell you they shot Muslims in a mosque "to fight the Islamic invasion".
But very few will admit the shit they actually did and caused, very few will have the guts to face their victims and say: "I killed your family and friends because I felt inferior and ashamed that my dad is a garbage collector".
None of which has anything to do with terrorist goals.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
