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Conversely, there are millions of people throughout the world who are suffering greater economic hardship, and who are subject to comparable deprivation of political liberties in their countries, who are not resorting to terrorism as a response to their plight.
One might invoke some deontological considerations, such as justice or rights, in favor of resorting to terrorism under certain circumstances.
To be sure, resorting to terrorism in such a case will be morally justified only if there are very good grounds for believing that terrorism will succeed where nothing else will: in preventing imminent extermination or "ethnic cleansing", or stopping it if it is already under way.
Alternatively, one might argue that the obvious, and obviously very weighty, considerations of rights (of the victims of terrorism) and justice (which demands respect for those rights) may sometimes be overridden by extremely weighty considerations of consequences an extremely high price that would be paid for not resorting to terrorism.
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In one he wrote: "I was thinking if it does I have decided to resort to terrorism".
It warned Saddam Hussein that his regime would pay a terrible price if it resorted to terrorism or chemical weapons.
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