Really, I should have titled this something like "What terrorists are after" or something like that. But I figured if I put "terrorist" in the title, that I'd probably get spied on more so than I am now, which I'm sure I am to some degree.

So many of the talking heads say that the goal of the "terrorists" is to make people scared - to inflict a fear into society so much so that it disrupts day to day behavior. But honestly, I think I have to disagree. I don't think people such as those that perpetrated the acts in India recently were interested in inflicting fear into people. What they wanted to do was kill as many people as they could. They wanted to make people suffer, not make people fear. For someone to have fear, they have to be alive to experience the fear. People that randomly kill other people are usually just trying to do that - kill other people. Who knows what the reason is - could be any one of thousands of reasons. But if all they were wanting to do was scare, there are other ways that could be accomplished. No, they want to kill, and kill and scare aren't the same. The mainstream media needs to be more careful with its terminology.