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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by yk on Friday November 13, 2015 @06:55PM (#10563370)
The point of terrorism is to provoke a reaction. To quote the German RAF terrorist Ulrike Meinhof on the subject: "A war 6 against 60 million can not be won. All we [the terrorist] can do, is to tear down the mask of democracy and expose the fascist face of the state." So what is damaging is not the terror itself, what damages the social fabric is the overreaction. Terrorists should just be tried like other criminals, not given the reaction they want.
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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by jacquesm on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:02PM (#10563410)
> Terrorists should just be tried like other criminals, not given the reaction they want.

Exactly, and very important, not given the platform they want, the media are very much a part of this as well.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by stuaxo on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:17PM (#10563503)
Yup - when I expressed similar sentiments about the killing of Jihadi John, somebody sarcastically said I was trying to bring about world peace (I wouldn't mind).

We have to fight for enlightenment values, and need to lead by example - we can't make martyrs out of people.

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