> Of course terrorist crimes have social causes. To be clearer, I
> should have written, "Street crimes, like terrorism, have social
> causes, but they're individual acts." Terrorism is explicitly
> political; you could argue that street crimes are political, too -
> they're committed almost entirely by poor young men with a less than
> bright future - but they're only implicitly so.
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Besides, no one is opposed to pursuing and arresting street criminals, are
they? Even though this sometimes requires using some degree of force.
Seth