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To: carranza2 who wrote (99918)	6/2/2003 8:05:40 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The eye of the beholder argument is morally repugnant because it allows barbarities to be committed in the name of whatever cause is being embraced. I assume you mistyped since a moral judgment cannot stop "barbarities" from taking place. But it can judge them. And I assume that was your point. The problem is with the term "barbarities" given the sentence you've offered. We've just beat this topic to death so I make only one point. The inhabitants of Dresden are certain to have considered the bombing of innocent civilians to be a "barbarism." They could not have thought otherwise. I genuinely do not wish to go back over this turf. I'm not even certain how we got to this point. Why don't you do a reply and then let's skip to something else.

To: carranza2 who wrote (99918)	6/3/2003 12:45:43 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

repeat, the term "terrorist" is as much political as anything else. For some the same acts, the same personage, is/are thought to be the acts of resistance of freedom fighting, etc Terrorism is the act of trying to achieve certain political goals by terrorizing a population, usually through a campaign of random killing. That is the definition of terrorism. If you like the political cause, I suppose you can call the terrorists "freedom fighters" - though Bibi Netanyahu has a good point when he says that real freedom fighters, fighters who are trying to establish a democracy with greater freedom, not just a new tyranny with themselves on top, usually have a real respect for human rights that puts an internal brake on what they are willing to do. Therefore they try to kill fewer people, and more responsible people, not just random people. This makes them different from terrorists.