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It can be - depends on the motive. The word 'terrorism' stirs up some pretty extreme imagery, but it doesn't actually take much to meet the description.
If I stick a knife into a bag of potato chips on the shelf of a Walmart just for shits and giggles, I've just committed vandalism.
If I stick a knife into a bag of potato chips on the shelf of a Walmart because I don't like that Walmart drives local shops out of business, I've just committed terrorism.
Luigi committed terrorism. Don't conflate that with 'Luigi is bad' - he's a fucking hero, and we desperately need more people like him.
No he didn't. He wasn't attempting to influence policy, or terrorize the institutions. He was exacting revenge against the person he felt was most responsible for suffering. That's not terrorism, that's murder.
False. You can only commit murder against a human being. And Thompson surrendered his humanity a long time ago. If what Luigi did was murder, so was what Seal Team Six did.
Of course what seal team six did was murder. Even if it's justifiable, it's still murder. The only time it's not is if it's accidental.