Is Suicide Painless?
Suicide bombings. Suicide killings. Words used in the American press to describe actions most popularized in the Middle East. But, are these really suicides?
DocBrain looked up the definitions for the word "suicide". There are two components needed for the definition to be true:
1. Primary goal
2. Personal loss
If your primary goal is to kill yourself and, inadvertently, you harm another person, it is suicide. The harming of others must be inadvertent, or at least, of secondary importance, in order to meet the criteria for suicide.
If your primary goal is to kill others and, in order to accomplish this, you willingly sacrifice your life, it is not suicide, but perhaps martyrdom or just plain homicide. And terrorism.
DocBrain believes that the press uses "suicide" as the adjective to describe the bombing or attacks because they do not want to use the word "terrorism".
Terrorism has developed a negative connotation of "cowardly" and "deceitful", but is a well known and longstanding method of waging war.
Assuming those who perform these acts are not coerced into doing them, DocBrain has coined the following descriptive words: "martyrrorist" and "martyrrorism". (They are not Kamikazes. Kamikaze referred to a "divine wind" that expelled the Mongol invaders and later the martyr acts of identified combatants [pilots] who attacked military targets).
So, we have martyrrorist bombings and attacks of martyrrorism. And these words make us ask "What are they martyrs for?" We might then find use for a term such as Islamomartyrrorism. That, I think, is important to never forget.
DocBrain looked up the definitions for the word "suicide". There are two components needed for the definition to be true:
1. Primary goal
2. Personal loss
If your primary goal is to kill yourself and, inadvertently, you harm another person, it is suicide. The harming of others must be inadvertent, or at least, of secondary importance, in order to meet the criteria for suicide.
If your primary goal is to kill others and, in order to accomplish this, you willingly sacrifice your life, it is not suicide, but perhaps martyrdom or just plain homicide. And terrorism.
DocBrain believes that the press uses "suicide" as the adjective to describe the bombing or attacks because they do not want to use the word "terrorism".
Terrorism has developed a negative connotation of "cowardly" and "deceitful", but is a well known and longstanding method of waging war.
Assuming those who perform these acts are not coerced into doing them, DocBrain has coined the following descriptive words: "martyrrorist" and "martyrrorism". (They are not Kamikazes. Kamikaze referred to a "divine wind" that expelled the Mongol invaders and later the martyr acts of identified combatants [pilots] who attacked military targets).
So, we have martyrrorist bombings and attacks of martyrrorism. And these words make us ask "What are they martyrs for?" We might then find use for a term such as Islamomartyrrorism. That, I think, is important to never forget.
posted by DocBrain at
11:37 AM
1 Comments:
Can you murder yourself? DocBrain is not sure. Martyr implies some sacrifice and the "suicide bombers" see themselves as self-sacrificing. If in the future, everyone alive is Muslim, these bombers will be known as martyrs. If our press wants to come down the middle, they could use martyr combined with something vile, such as terrorist. I like the term terrorist as it goes to the motive (murder suggests a specific target, but they don't have any one person in mind). I agree with you that our press should be on our side and from our standpoint, they are indeed murderers!
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