> A terrorist works with terror (fear).
Extreme, yet I can't deny its effectiveness. How do you radicalize a decadent, apathetic population? People who literally do not give a shit about important issues because they have too much to lose, because they'd have to give up their comfortable lifestyles? Terrorists attack them directly, breaking the illusion that their almighty governments can protect them. They gave up all those freedoms, paid all those taxes, sacrificed their principles, all in the name of security... Only to discover they aren't safe at all. Quite ironic, really. No wonder governments worldwide are willing to pull out all the stops against terrorists.
> Also at least in democracies you can reject the government without physical violence.
Doubt. To me it seems democracies exist just to give people the illusion of choice, not to give them any real power. The reality is people are manipulated by the mass media, their very wants and desires are shaped by it. Censorship is growing world wide, even in "democratic" governments, because they want to reserve the right to shape the population's collective mind. And when even that fails, it turns out every politician answers to the corporations anyway. They literally buy laws via lobbyists. If by some miracle some law gets passed to benefit people at the expense of corporations, the lobbyists swoop in and neuter it with hidden loopholes and fine print.