When the Charlie Hebdo attack happened, people were shocked and angered by the actions of the shooters, though, to the shooters, the acts they committed were just. In Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera, when Saraswathi bombed the bus, she did it to find justice for herself. To those who are negatively affected by it, suicide bombings and mass killings are never justifiable. People have their own idea of what is right or wrong and once a person has made up their mind, it’s hard to persuade them in a different direction. But, in all reality, acts of terrorism are always justifiable, it just comes down reasoning, according to situation, moral priorities, values, ethnocentrism, in grouping and out grouping.
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Attempting to understand others is essential when trying to comprehend why a suicide bomber would do what they have chosen to do. The inability to understand those of other groups is what can easily cause a gap in reasoning and it can additionally establish ethnocentrism, the view of things in which a person believes that their own group is the center of everything. Ethnocentrism nourishes pride, divides people and causes groups to boast, often while looking with contempt on outsiders, otherwise known as the outgroup. In Island of a Thousand Mirrors, the in grouping and out grouping of the Sinhalese and Tamils are what caused the gigantic divide between those of the same country. It caused the “...Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.” (Munaweera 36) and it caused the “...two heads of state to engage in battle.” (Munaweera 37). The Tamil were tired of the Sinhalese thinking that they were better and the Sinhalese were upset because the Tamils were trying to take control of so the called, Sinhala territory, so, due to this, a war was sparked. A war in which violence was justifiable, as long as it was for a cause that could be believe in. When Saraswathi decided to be a suicide bomber to help the Tamil Tigers, she believed that what she was doing was right, either because she believed in a world that the Tigers idealized or because she thought the Sinhalese soldiers needed to pay for the sins that they
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Attempting to understand others is essential when trying to comprehend why a suicide bomber would do what they have chosen to do. The inability to understand those of other groups is what can easily cause a gap in reasoning and it can additionally establish ethnocentrism, the view of things in which a person believes that their own group is the center of everything. Ethnocentrism nourishes pride, divides people and causes groups to boast, often while looking with contempt on outsiders, otherwise known as the outgroup. In Island of a Thousand Mirrors, the in grouping and out grouping of the Sinhalese and Tamils are what caused the gigantic divide between those of the same country. It caused the “...Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.” (Munaweera 36) and it caused the “...two heads of state to engage in battle.” (Munaweera 37). The Tamil were tired of the Sinhalese thinking that they were better and the Sinhalese were upset because the Tamils were trying to take control of so the called, Sinhala territory, so, due to this, a war was sparked. A war in which violence was justifiable, as long as it was for a cause that could be believe in. When Saraswathi decided to be a suicide bomber to help the Tamil Tigers, she believed that what she was doing was right, either because she believed in a world that the Tigers idealized or because she thought the Sinhalese soldiers needed to pay for the sins that they