Question

What is meant by the term one man’s terrorist is another man’s hero? What are your thoughts on communications as it relates to this statement? please elaborate

Answer 1

This statement does not have too many perspectives as it is clear its just a mentality of few people who would think one man’s terrorist is another man’s hero as there thought process must be diverted from a group or society which believe in a particular religion or a concept of a religion which actually does not exist.

‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s hero’. most terrorists don’t see themselves as such, but rather refer to themselves as ‘freedom fighters’ , it is not possible to label one and the same person as a ‘terrorist’ and ‘Hero’. we have elaborated on this problem by saying that “Hero use legitimate military methods to attack legitimate political targets. The actions can be legitimized when they have some possibility of winning the conflict.

This shows  that although it is possible for different individuals or states do have diverging opinions on any act of terrorism or freedom fighting, this does not hold for the search for a universal definition of terrorism and hence this greatly reduces the applicability of ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s hero’ to this quest