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Maybe I misunderstood your comment, I read it as saying that 100% of the population agreed with your 1 hypothetical terrorist, in aims if not means. This place just isn't like that, not by a long shot. If you'd said "for every terrorist, there are 499 people out of a thousand who feel the same way", I still wouldn't have agreed, but it would have left the door open for an opposing political ideology.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I certainly didn't mean to imply that 999/1000 of Northern Irish are republicans; that's obviously not true. All I was trying to say was that 999/1000 of republicans aren't terrorists (and the same, of course, goes for loyalists). It's the moderates on both sides, not the extremists, who most deserve peace.

Peter