Can terrorism ever be justified?

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.