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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (145213)4/16/2002 6:22:22 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1572780
 
If I am driving in a legal and reasonably safe manner, and then someone jumps out from behind a bush and I hit them and they die it is an accident. If someone walks down the street and I aim my car at them and run them over and they die, it is murder. The distinction in my earlier statement is almost exactly the same as the distinction between the car accident and the vehicular homicide.

Tim, bad example......in terrorism the people have to live. Let me ask a question in the hopst it will settle the issue. Do you think it makes a big difference the intent of the two bombings in the level of terror felt by the affected civilians? I understand your concern with intent. However an important part of terror is that the recipient has no idea when the action will end and if they will live through it. I contend that that is far more important in creating the feelings of terror than the intent of the perpetrator. Therefore, I would suggest that both bombings are acts of terrorism.

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