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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 08:58:06 -0700, Paul S. Person   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:28:26 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Here's an interesting article on neologisms, and it gives an example   
   >>of one made up by C.S. Lewis -- Bulverism.   
   >>   
   >>It's not used much nowadays, though I've seen quite a lot of Bulverism   
   >>on social media recently as people insist that a certain mass murderer   
   >>must be called a terrorist rather than a lone wolf, not because he is   
   >>one, but because they desperately *want* him to be one.   
   >>   
   >>Anyway, the article is here:   
   >>   
   >>https://t.co/g38Q5BI08q   
   >   
   >I wasn't aware that "terrorist" and "lone wolf" were mutually   
   >exclusive.   
      
   No, not neccessarily. But if the aim of an action is to terroise   
   people, then the motive can be seen from the aims of the group that   
   the person represents. If a "lone wold" is trying to terrorise people,   
   then the effort is wasted if they don't make the reasons for their   
   actions clear.   
      
   In the absense of any clear indication of who the person is trying to   
   terrorise and why, it makes more sense to ascribe their actions to   
   misanthropy rather than terrorism. Possibly linked to lycanthropy?   
      
   More on that here:   
      
   https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/what-is-terrorism/   
      
      
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