Comment by panarchy
4 months ago
The stochastic part is who is doing it (random people being incited) vs an organized cell who has members engaging in random acts of violence
4 months ago
The stochastic part is who is doing it (random people being incited) vs an organized cell who has members engaging in random acts of violence
Right, it's the inverse of saying a "random dice roll" isn't happening because there isn't a random human throwing a random selection of polyhedra. Different aspects.
That said, even "random" has so many different interpretations that "random targets" it can still be a misleading shorthand. What happens is something closer to "unpredictably unjust and disproportionate"... but of course nobody wants to keep saying a mouthful like that.