There are only people who initiate force, and everyone else.
The only people who initiate force who would possibly cause terror in me are those I can't adequately resist.
The only ones I would ever feel inadequate against are those who have State permission to initiate force against me. The inadequacy comes from my recognition that they have a lot more money than me (since they can steal or print "money" without constraint), and with that money can buy lots of fancy hardware and the cooperation and "loyalty" of a lot of principle-impaired people to keep sending after me.
So, I suppose that to me, the only possible "terrorist" would be a State employee. IF that employee were able to instill terror in me, which is unlikely.
I'd suggest that the folks who are normally classified as terrorists (non-government folk who intend to cause fear through indiscriminate violence against civilians) ALSO qualify as force-initiators, and often with levels of hardware you can't hope to replicate.
ReplyDeleteThe state isn't the only source of violence-initiation, just the worst one.
Yes, those also qualify as force initiators, but I find it dishonest to differentiate and set them apart from other force initiators.
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