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- A warning that if people or governments respond to terrorist acts by abandoning core values, yielding to fear, changing policy, or conceding objectives, then the terrorists will have achieved their desired outcome.
- A rhetorical claim used to justify continued resistance, non-capitulation, or the maintenance of normal behavior in the face of terror, on the grounds that otherwise the attackers' goals are realized.