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Posted by: UshotYerEyeOut
It's not about how the other side thinks, it's a matter of being a freedom fighter vs. a terrorist.
By ANY convention of thought, if you intentionally kill large amounts of innocent people, you are a terrorist.
Out of thee books I've read, there are two types on Innies. Those who want their freedom and those who just want to kill civilians. They knew who they were and so did the UNSC.
Throughout our history we have plenty of examples for both. For instance, the Viet Cong were freedom fighters. They focused on hitting military targets and wanted the support of the people in South Vietnam. On the other hand, you have "freedom fighters" in Africa mutilating and massacring people. Those are terrorists.
Both groups know what they are.
You do realize that the Viet Cong did not discriminate between killing armed soldiers and civilians in the South right? Many southern civilian Vietnamese casualties were incurred by Viet Cong forces. Many more slaughtered by regime they put into place. So they get a pass for being "freedom fighters" in your eyes?
Think about what you've just said. "...intentionally kill large amounts of innocent people..." Does that make joe shmoe the serial killer a terrorist? What about psycho billy who went nuts and decided to rack up a kill count at school? Japanese soldiers in WWII that committed unspeakable acts beyond the rules of war for civilians and POWs?
No they don't get that label. Why? Because they don't have the same MO as a terrorist. Terrorists commit acts of terror to send a message for a cause against an established system of some sort, and to rock that system off kilter.
See at the end of the day, you can argue semantics about definitions but at most what can be said is that 'all terrorists are rebels, but not all rebels are terrorists' which is the end point I'm trying to make. Regardless of methods they're still under the same umbrella and that umbrella is the change they fight for, and that change as a whole will be fought against as a whole by the party the rebels oppose.
So in regards to Halo there's no reason to divide the Innies into two distinct groups of "rebels and terrorists" because at the end of the day they are the same and will be identified all the same because share the same goal: separate from the UNSC. And that goal, that idea, is one that is wholly opposed by the UNSC and they strive to crush it as a whole.