Terrorism

Our languages are very extensive, but people don’t like to use specific words to mean what they want and in a lot of cases we switch words and the meanings are completely the opposite. That’s why that almost every single word has two or more meanings. This depends in the way we say the words and in the context in which we use them. There are words which their meaning are different but has a near relation like people, but there are words in which its meaning is completely the opposite. This is the case of terrorism and terrorist. Perhaps for a many people in society these words refer to death, terror and some crazy people causing panic to innocents. But for some others these words are fighting for good causes that only extreme actions will take in consideration. A very good example is the FARC consider as terrorist, for the news and for the 90% of society are lunatics that kidnapped people to sell illegally drugs. But for the other 10% means people that help the poor ones, and fight for their rights in a very extreme way. Obviously this bad impression of the FARC as a group of terrorism that we have; is because the media created this by judging them only for the bad acts. But there is also another way to know why them do what they do, and the ways they use to get their goals.

For this controversy I don’t have a solution, use the words which its exact meaning perhaps is a good starting. But which one will be the looser the terrorist as killers or as fighters of a good cause. Very difficult to get an agreement, but with no doubt the winner will be the language.