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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by robotresearcher on Saturday October 01, 2016 @09:44PM (#12620718)
> This word terrorist needs to just go away. Call them criminals.

Terrorists are criminals whose main motivation is political. The main motivation of other criminals is not. One term is more specific, so they are not interchangeable, and the term terrorist carries useful information when used properly.

Of course, diseases are not politically motivated, so that analogy is not great.

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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by abecedarius on Saturday October 01, 2016 @10:09PM (#12620770)
So Henry Thoreau and Richard Nixon were terrorists?

I'd really prefer more specific (and disrespectful) terms like "violent troll". "Terrorist" helps feed the phenomenon it's naming.

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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by GrinningFool on Saturday October 01, 2016 @11:32PM (#12620937)
I've often wondered what effect it would have if the media universally started referring to "suicide bombers" as "mentally imbalanced religious fanatics".
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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by proksoup on Sunday October 02, 2016 @12:29AM (#12621041)
Like a world without lawyers, one shudders at the impossible dream.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/9/9b/Bes...

Can you imagine?

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Re:The terrorist inside my husband's brain by jacobush on Sunday October 02, 2016 @01:45AM (#12621205)
Some suicide bombers are children, coerced or fooled into it. "Go stand there in the crowd. Your parents will be proud. If you dont, something very unfortunate might happen to your little sibling."
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