Terrorists really anger me!!

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

By your definition of terrorism... shouting at someone angrily is terrorism.

Tarring and feathering... really?

That's even less harmful then the Boston Tea Party.  It was the equivlent of a wedgie... you took a bath, and then you were clean again.

College hazing is more harmful.

Your once again compairing a childish antic to the actual deaths of people.

Not at a single person, but at a whole group of people. Remember the feeling here after 9/11 where everyone felt unsafe and at danger? That is the goal of terrorism, not killing the people. The dead were just a means to an end.

Also as I said, I haven't heard of too many people being killed to instill terror back in those days. The best I can think of is guillotining people who the public thought deserved it during the French Revolution, and that was 1789. Maybe killing innocents wasn't entirely new, but killing them as a way to instill fear was probably not as widely adopted, or feasible, as it is today.