Sir Bernard Crick asks, can terrorism ever be justified ethically?
Our present government seems commendably obsessed with denouncing domestic violence but less fastidious about international violence. In his book, Violence for Equality, Professor Ted Honderich argued persuasively that violent revolt was justifiable not only if the state killed its inhabitants arbitrarily and abruptly, but also when it was killing them slowly by deprivation, malnutrition and gross economic differentiation, as measured by huge differences in life expectancy and perinatal mortality between the rulers and ruled. Political violence differs from individual self-defence or heroic self-mortification, for it involves widespread human relationships and has widespread causes and consequences; the causes can be many and complicated and the consequences often unexpected. Are we not all complicit to some degree in the injustices of foreign and social policy that we must have something to do with the motivations of the terrorists of the Twin Towers and the London bombings? Our leade
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