Can terrorism ever be justified?
This essay shall provide a case that terrorism
will never be justified. For starters, terrorism is the random use of violence
to achieve political ends that inflicts damage on innocent people and property
creating terror or fear in them. Terrorist try to get attention and focus on
their problem by killing innocent people, and perhaps worst of all that they
claim to fight for human rights. However, do they not realise that they break
one of the most vital human right? The right to live. In addition, one should
not walk around fearing to face death.
A problem with terrorism is that there is no
choice. You either agree to their terms, or die. When you put it like this, the
answer seems obvious, but it is not. The terms of the terrorists aren’t exactly
practiced within the human rights. Some terrorist groups might have some fair
points, but the way they excecute the operation is horrendous. For example the
tragic fall of the twin towers in The United states of America the in 2001. 911
was a act of terrorists and is possibly the most famous terrorist act in the
world.
There is hard to see how terrorist doesn’t get
affected by all the killing of civillians themselves. They seem to think they
are some kind of freedom fighters that are here to save humanity. It doesen’t
seem like they see the bigger picture. They are killing people, tearing apart
families and supressing human rights. They are like a pest, a setback in human
development. To push things to the extreme, I see that the only good thing that
could come out of a terrorist action is if the only on they managed to blow up
was themselves.
The majority of people think of the Middle East
when they hear the word terrorism. It is not wrong at all, but terrorism exists
in other parts of the world. Like for example the ETA in Spain who wants the
Basque country to be an independent state. Even here in Norway terrorism exists.
On the 22th of july 2011 Anders Behring Brievik who is a
right-wing extremist murdered 69 teenagers aged 14-19, at the Norwegian island
of Utøya. before the
shooting began, Breivik detonated a car bomb in Oslo which killed 8 people. He
then boarded a ferry to the island of Utøya were roughly 600 teenagers were
attending a youth summer camp. Brievik wore a police uniform and used a fake
police ID badge to pass through security without incident. He then proceeded to
go on a killing spree on the Island. This is the biggest one man slaughter in
history. And he executed this operation for political reasons.
So to answer my own question. Can terrorism
ever be justified? The answer is no. No cause is worth fighting for if it involves
the death of innocent people. I believe that we that we have to fight fire with
fire. Show them no mercy. Because I know sure as H*** they wouldn’t show us
any.
