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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist
By your definition not mine. 
BTW I would not classify a bank robbery as terrorism because most are in and out, not holding the whole bank or customers for hours on end for a ransom. |
So a bank robbery is only terrorism if they take hostages? Either way they're still coercing a civilian into handing over money and inciting fear into people.
Where exactly do you draw the line of what terrorism is then?
In all aspects, terrorism is motivated to incite fear in the general population in the domestic territory of a country, disrupt government or create anarchy.
Piracy falls into none of the above. The pirates are purely for profit. They don't want to disrupt shipping, just inconvenience the companies enough so that they pay ransom. If they disrupt profit, then their income goes away.