Terrorism is an opinion.

Terrorism is a point of view. Someone asked the question "is one mans terrorist another mans freedom fighter?".

Well I have no idea what-so-ever why you decided to challenge me of all people to a debate. Especially on an issue such as this. But hey I'll go for it anyways.

Your case, and point is that terrorism is a point of view. I would like to disagree with you. Terrorism is a noun and can easily be defined but is never a point of view. Nouns are not points of view, examples:

Cat
Bed
T.V
Politician
Milk
War
Death
Mom
Christmas
Terrorism

As you can see none of those are an opinion or point of view. You can take points of view or opinions on issues regarding them. For examples:

Cats are nice.
Beds are warm.
T.Vs are real.
Politicians are corrupt.
Milk is magnificent.
War is good.
Death is bad.
Moms are generally cool people.
Christmas is my favorite holiday.
People who employ terrorism are terrorists but can be considered freedom fighters by some.

These can all be seen to be opinions on matters. Each sentence involves the noun, and also a verb + adjective. This creates an opinion.

Terrorism in itself is not an opinion. It is simply defined:
1. The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.

Anyone who uses such means is employing terrorism. This may make them a terrorist. Which is defined as:
2. a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.

A terrorist however is not an opinion. One must add an adjective and verb to employ the word terrorist into an opinion.

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"

This is an opinion. However if we look at this sentence it says "one man's terrorist" to be a terrorist that man must advocate terrorism in some way. Which means even if the person is another mans freedom fighter he is still advocating terrorism to someone. Thus he is still employing the noun terrorism to fight for freedom. Thus terrorism is still.... not an opinion.

Clerly the word is not a noun then. Where did oyur definition come from? I am refering to the general useage of the word when it is often attributed with words such as murder.

Ummm....

The word is terrorism. The ism on the end signifies that it is a noun.

Terrorism.
Patriotism.
Capitalism.
Communism.
Marxism.

I pulled my definition from Dictionary.com (common knowledge) but just to humor me I also just went and got my Kingfisher dictionary which lists Terrorism once again as a noun.

On your last point...

"I am refering to the general useage of the word when it is often attributed with words such as murder."

>>Terrorism can be done through murder but it can also be done through other means. The only real mandate of terrorism is that it intimidates someone into doing something you want. Terrorism breads terror, thus the name. Therefor terrorism can be anything that creates terror.

But then war is the exact sameas terrorism. This the negates the need for the word as it has a clear opinion behind it when people use it.

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I will go point by point on your arguments.

"But then war is the exact sameas terrorism."

>>Yes, they are both words, they are both nouns. They are not an opinion, they are a thing. How do you opinion the word war?

"This the negates the need for the word as it has a clear opinion behind it when people use it."

>>First off both the words, War and Terrorism, contain no opinion behind them. When someone walks up to me and says, "War." or "Terrorism" I since no hidden opinion behind such words. Should someone walk up and say, "The war in Afghanistan", then I can formulate my own opinion if I desire. I cannot however voice any opinion through the single word, "Terrorism". I can perhaps form an opinion on the idea of terrorism, but terrorism itself is not my opinion or an opinion at all.

Terrorism = Noun.