{"id":522,"date":"2019-09-07T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=522"},"modified":"2019-09-07T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T20:36:17","slug":"tyrannicide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/07\/tyrannicide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrannicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The justification of tyrannicide is something that philosophers and historians constantly theorize about. It is all about one\u2019s opinion and the situation to decide whether it is acceptable. This is because tyrannicide is the act of killing a tyrant who is abusing the power in order to better the community and have a central government. On the other hand, terrorism is an act of violence, usually by an institutional organization, used to promote their differing ideologies. The theories that claim tyrannicide and terrorism are the same are interesting but wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a plethora of reasons for why tyrannicide and terrorism greatly differ, but I think there are two main ones. One is because tyrannicide only targets one person: the tyrant. On the contrary, terrorists chose their victim or hostage at random to send their message and target a larger community. The second and perhaps most significant reason is that tyrannicide is an attempt to uphold the moral principles of natural law. Terrorism is the complete opposite, as terrorists are described as amoral and antinomian. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The justification of tyrannicide is something that philosophers and historians constantly theorize about. It is all about one\u2019s opinion and the situation to decide whether&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/07\/tyrannicide-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyrannicide<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}