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It is terrorism if you do violent acts to push your political goals https://www.britannica.com/topic/terrorism
Violence is a key word in that definition.
Violence: Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury.
So, starving a group of people isn't terrorism because you're not exerting physical force.
Not easily stopping a fire when you know it's going to spread towards an occupied house isn't violence because you're not exerting physical force.
Poisoning drinking water isn't violence because you're not exerting physical force.
Real question: what do you call those things? It can't be defined as terrorism. What is it?
I don't think "physical force" is a necesarry component of violence. Take, for example, domestic violence. The US DOJ gives these criteria for if an action is DV or not:
I think a more apt definition of violence would be "coercive behavior"
Coercive behavior doesn't quite work though.
Yours is better than either of the ones posted, but I do think the physical force aspect is important to differentiate from other aspects.
I was going to attempt to make a point about how stopping terrorism that isn't explicitly violent with violence isn't the same thing.
Starving a population isn't violence, but it is terrorism. Attempting to give that population food and being stopped by the state by legal means is terrorism.
The state is going to define things in specific ways to ensure that they're considered correct.
I had written out a response to the person I replied to and then didn't post after reading some of their other comments. They're probably just a troll, or one of those people that's legitimately kind of smart but hasn't been around people that are incredibly smart, so hasn't had a reason to adjust their opinions about things because they might be shallowly correct but are fundamentally wrong. Like Newton's laws.
Kinda missed the point here. The other guy was saying that eco terrorism is not terrorism. I said nothing about if starving people is violence or not.
Saving humanity from climate collapse is not political
Lol hubris incarnate.
I mean its also not possible to save humanity from fossil fuel induced runaway climate catastrophe, I just applaud anyone willing to take extreme measures in that pursuit. No hubris whatsoever lol
"Saving humanity from the sins of the west and their ideological indoctrination is also not political. "
Just call it what it is then say it's justified if you think it is. If you can dress this up as not terrorism then nothing is.
One is literally happening outside as we speak, one is based upon an extremist interpretation of a 2000 year old book. Can you spot the difference?
The existence of God is unfalsifiable, so you can't say it's untrue to the believer. Just make the rules and play by them. Also it's more like 1500 years ago 🤓.
The idea of climate change and it's causes IS falsifiable though, which is why taking actions related to that cause is a bit different than something that has no way to be proven.
🤷 Guess we'll just have to let oil companies keep killing us all.
In which scenario do you think that you're gonna live for longer and/or with a higher quality of life.
Think about the implications of each scenario and let me know.
I think you're an idiot if you think it's the status quo. Even if we stopped producing fossil fuels tomorrow its too late to undo what we've already set in motion anyway.
If we stopped producing fossil fuels tomorrow, you don't think they're gonna be mass famines and global economic collapse?
We depend so much already on fossil fuels. The solution is to invest more into renewables and plastic alternatives, not to rip it out without proper work to avoid disaster.
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I could be swayed either way. I think climate collapse is inevitable and out of human hands at this point. Have a nice life pal ✌️