If I found a group of terrorist sympathizers invading my property and dancing on it I wouldn't be very empathetic to them.

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JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> If I found a group of terrorist sympathizers invading my property and dancing on it I wouldn't be very empathetic to them

But it would be your choice to commit terrorism back at them. Plenty of people across history have chosen both ways. It tends to go much better for one group over the other.

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spaghetdefects 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think that's "terrorism" as much as it is self defense. The Haitian Slave Revolt and Indigenous American Pueblo Revolts come to mind as analogous military actions that produced positive results.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> don't think that's "terrorism" as much as it is self defense Everyone says this. If October 7 had limited itself to military targets, this would have been different. If current polling showed Gazans pushing for only military retaliation, I think things would be different. Everyone has the right to self defense. But everyone also gets judged by how they do it. > Haitian Slave Revolt Claimed territory with a plan for maneouvre. Not particularly comparable outside minor tactical elements. > Indigenous American Pueblo Revolts come to mind This is a good analogy. I’ll have to read up on it more. To wit, however, they eventually accepted the new—awful, unfair and racist, I may add, but survivable and superior to the alternative of endless war—status quo.