Assertion: terrorism | /r/HasProperty | justified
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
value: to an end
type: PURPOSE
value: on the one hand
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: On the one hand, terrorism can seem to be justified or right if people are rebelling against harsh conditions.
text: They are justified (1) when they are politically effective weapons in the revolutionary struggle and (2) when, everything considered, there are sound reasons for believing that, by the use of that type of violence rather than no violence at all or violence of some other type, there will be less injustice, suffering and degradation in the world than would otherwise have been the case (Nielsen 1981: 446).
text: Is terrorism ever morally justifiable?
text: THREE QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: Can terrorism be a justified means to an end, or is it an illegal option that should not be tolerated?
text: Can terrorism be morally justified?
text: When that is taken into account, the conclusion may rather be that even in extremis, if terrorism is to be justified, the reasons for believing that it will work and that nothing else will must be very strong indeed.
text: The presumption of critics of David Miliband's view that terrorism can be justified is, Natalie Hanman points out, that the state has a monopoly on violence, which therefore legitimates the use of it, and that any other group using violence is illegitimate.
text: If a terrorist act or campaign is to be justified instrumentally, it must be shown (1) that the end sought is good enough to justify the means, (2) that the end will indeed be achieved by means of terrorism, and (3) that the end cannot be achieved in any other way that is morally and otherwise less costly.