suicide/homicide >tags

martin mschiller at pobox.com
Fri Feb 7 20:47:02 PST 2003


a msg onFri, 7 Feb 2003 23:26:37 -0500fromDennis Perrincontained-


>If you wanna know what I'd call it, I'd use simple terms like "premeditated
>murder" and "terrorism." But these lack the heat of the suicide/homicide
>tags, so, given a choice between the two, I'd still go with homicide, simply
>because that is the intention -- to kill other people. That the bomber kills
>him- or herself doesn't negate the overall effect. A real "suicide" bomber
>would kill only him - or herself. That's suicide. Deciding to take others
>with you, people who have no desire to die at that moment, is homicide.

Why not accept the common term - martyr? It is decidedly simpler (for communication) to share a commonly recognized name for a known, experienced phenomenon. Much more enabling to moving the process of understanding forward.

Martin



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