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To: unclewest who wrote (67426)	9/6/2004 9:22:16 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793846

The biggest problem with the arguments you propose is you have not yet provided your definition of terrorism. Clearly your definition is different than most. That is why I decided yesterday this conversation is a dead end. It never occurred to me that I was operating off an aberrant definition of terrorism. My understanding of the term is the creation of terror by targeted violence against civilians to intimidate enemies into concessions. I certainly hope that a lack of a common understanding of that word is not what mucked up this attempted exploration of the morality of terrorism. Other than my operating with a lay definition for what for you may be a term of art, what is wrong with my working definition and how has it been problematic? As for my not having provided a definition, I did recommend to Nadine upthread a site I encountered in my research on this. I didn't cite it for the purpose of providing my particular definition of terrorism, which never occurred to me as necessary, but because it presented a lot of different angles on the subject, one of which was the media's use of the word, but it did include a definition. Here's the link again. And here's the definition. <<Terrorism : (noun) 1: the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimindation or coercion or instilling fear>> wordiq.com