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03-24-2016
I really, really hate how people are branding anyone who goes against their established norms as terrorists.
Terrorists, terrorists, terrorists.
Why do we need to call them terrorists?
Why? Is it because they’re inciting “terror” to other people?
But why am I like this?
Well, I am like this simply because when we look at the word “terrorist”. We can see how it basically translates to an individual how proliferates terror and as we dig further down and define the word terror it simply means:
Intense, overpowering fear.
Fear. Fear is a subjective thing. We can’t fully and objectively say that a certain thing X causes fear to each and every individual in a given society. And that is where I’m having a hard time.
Why are we grouping these people in this subjective term?
Because it’s easy.
It’s easy to brand these people who try to make a statement about the current state of things and do action against it as terrorists and associate them with acts of pure evil.
We need to realize that these people who are we branding as such. Are people who are, in the end, fighting for their ideals. Those ideals might be right or wrong, but that’s beyond the point.
The fact is, they are fighting for their ideals and they are not just working on some innate desire to spread evil, which is what most of the institutions are telling you.
Terrorists aren’t doing these things because they have the innate desire to spread evil.
Terrorists are doing these things because they are fighting for an ideal that they believe in.
Terrorism is a word made by institutions to water down the ideals fought by other people to nothing less of just inciting pure chaos.