[quote]dpMeggers wrote...
[quote]Patriciachr34 wrote...
I know there is a case to be made for Anders the terrorist, but it is my impression that Anders was not trying to terrorize and intimidiate a population. Nor was he trying to destroy and rebuild all of the moires of a society. He was trying to escalate a conflict by removing the one thing that was keeping "the lid on the pot", that being Althena and the Chantry (the Chantry being a symbol of opression for mages). In essence, he was trying bring about change for one group of people within a society and not destroy that society as a whole. I beleive that this distinction is important here. [/quote]
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From the Oxford English Dictionary:
terrorism: the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
The Chantry explosion was unofficial/unauthorized insofar as no governing body gave the command for it to happen. Violence was most certainly used - the building was obliterated. The intent of the action was to kickstart a war between the Chantry in the form of templars and mages so that the mages finally fight for their rights, which can be deemed a political aim, given that the Chantry does sort of govern most of southern Thedas from the background.
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
terrorist: a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.
Anders certainly used terrorism (see above) in the pursuit of political aims - mage freedom. I would say that what he did certainly is a textbook case of an act of terrorism. Thus Anders is a terrorist.
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From the Merriam Webster Dictionary
Definition of
REVOLUTION1 a [/i] (1)[/i]
: the action by a celestial body of going round in an orbit or elliptical course;
also : apparent movement of such a body round the earth (2)[/i]
: the
time taken by a celestial body to make a complete round in its orbit (3)[/i]
: the rotation of a celestial body on its axis b[/i]
: completion of a course (as of years);
also : the period made by the regular succession of a measure of time or by a succession of similar events c [/i] (1)[/i]
: a progressive motion of a body around an axis so that any line of the
body parallel to the axis returns to its initial position while
remaining parallel to the axis in transit and usually at a constant
distance from it (2)[/i]
: motion of any figure about a center or axis <
revolution of a right triangle about one of its legs generates a cone> (3)[/i]
: rotation 1b
2 a[/i] : a sudden, radical, or complete change b[/i] : a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed c[/i] : activity or movement designed to effect fundamental changes in the socioeconomic situation d[/i] : a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something : a change of paradigm <the Copernican revolution>One man's terroist is another man's revolutionary. This makes us both correct.
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