It’s the threat of danger that matters.
Correct! It is the threat of danger that matters. Domestic violence as you described is threatening and abusive, and therefore violent.
Is it the same thing when the property is owned by a company, not a person?
Is graffiti terrorism? It’s property damage. It can be ideologically motivated. If someone had spray painted the cars, instead of lit them on fire… would it still be terrorism?
Who was threatened here?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yep the idea of terrorism bad is honestly kinda overly simple. Can it be bad sure especially if you don’t have a specific target but we’ll the IRA, American Revolutionaries, and Zapatistas have shown that there is a good way to go about it. The term of the day is damage minimization.
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Surprisingly, Star Wars is a great example of this. A rinky dink political group (rebels) blowing up a military installation (death star) is terrorism. That does not mean the action was unjustified.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s not terrorism if it’s war.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Terrorism that succeeds is called revolution.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
But they’re at war though, aren’t they? I suppose the Empire would still spin it that way.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yep. Nobody (okay, very few people) want to burn Teslas, or make car bombs, or dress up as indians and throw a shipment of tea into the Boston harbor, but when you live in a state where the government is no longer governing for the people (even if the people knowingly, or unknowingly selected that government), ignores it’s citizens or even actively harms them, then you don’t have much choice. You have to defend yourself.