At the metaphorical level, the acceptance of the logic of terror leads to at least three kinds of blindness. First, violence prevents most parties from seeing the genuine causes of grievance which gave rise to the use of terrorism in the first place as a means to achieve some political goal. Theescalation of violence robs the ability of conflicting parties to appreciate the causes and chain of events that result in terrorism and its responses. Second, users of violence are blind to the rights of innocents to life and freedom from fear. They become pawns in the chess game of violence governed by the logic of terror.
Pawns are always dispensable.
Third, caught in the logic of terror, the parties involved are blind to nonviolent alternatives in solving problems.