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Tropic_Sunset posted...

That said, people have absolutely been dragged from their cars and beaten.

Usually not when the car in question is being used as a weapon. Most people who get dragged from cars either can't move their car, or choose not to because they don't like the idea of running people over to escape. If somebody's just driven a car into a crowd with the intent of running people over, neither of those issues are particularly relevant.

Tropic_Sunset posted...

They both tried to ensure their escape. They are both cowards. The attack wasn't important.

Ensuring you can escape safely after mounting an offensive is basic strategy, not cowardice. The attack is important in assessing how bold the attack is, because the level of risk faced by the attacker is massively different.

Tropic_Sunset posted...

Trying to excuse one and condemn the other based on only their methods of attack is ridiculous.

I'm not particularly trying to excuse either of them. Both are bad, and neither should have happened. I'm just pointing out that it's not particularly cowardly to start a fight while surrounded by thousands of people that you know aren't going to take your side, and that calling such people cowards in a fit of thinly-veiled pathos is just silly. How brave or cowardly it is irrelevant to the discussion of whether it's right or wrong.

If you want an extreme example: Suicide bombers are braver than any of us will ever be.
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