• Sybil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    no one is sympathising with terrorists for any objective application of the label, because objective application of that label is impossible.

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      1 year ago

      No it's pretty easy. When you force your way into a place specifically to murder civilians with no other goal other than to spread terror, you're a terrorist.

      You agreeing with terrorists makes you a bad person, it doesn't make them "not terrorists."

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        1 year ago

        terrorist isn't an objective label, no matter how much emotionally charged language you use. what you described is murder. calling it terrorism is a political position.

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                1 year ago

                it's a fallacious argument that doesn't undermine my actual position at all, it just betrays a lack of ability or interest to engage with intellectual honesty.