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Can you? Yes. As @Cloudchaser points out, it is being done, increasingly more commonly. Do I wish such stories did not exist? YES. Terrorist attacks are very much a part of my life. There's a fai...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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System
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2019-12-12T21:57:21Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T08:42:14Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
_Can_ you? Yes. As @Cloudchaser points out, it is being done, increasingly more commonly. Do I wish such stories did not exist? YES. Terrorist attacks are very much a part of my life. There's a failed attempt every week where I live, on average once a month they do not fail. When I was a child, it was far worse. My mum wouldn't allow me and my brother to take the same bus, because she was terrified of losing both of us. So what is it you're doing when you make your protagonist a terrorist? You're making the reader sympathise with him. Even if particular actions of your protagonist are despicable, they are suddenly understandable, forgivable. From there, it's one step to "sometimes acceptable". Well, NO! Terrorism is not forgivable. There is NOTHING understandable about blowing up a bus full of schoolchildren. I should draw your attention to the distinction between terrorism and guerilla. While sometimes the distinctions are blurred, guerilla is strictly against soldiers. Terror is against civilians. And political assassination isn't terrorism either. Terrorism is against your average Joe, and average Joe's baby daughter - the targets that would instil most _terror_.
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System
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2018-05-02T07:51:52Z (about 6 years ago)
Original score: 6