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To me there is a distinction between terrorist acts and acts committed by someone who is mentally ill. I don't think it devalues a crime to say that it is not terrorism. If anything non-terror attacks can be much worse, more alarming and much more incomprehensible.

The reason that terrorism is quite strictly defined is because it affects the whole judicial process and different powers are involved when dealing with a terror attack. We don't need to categorise every act of evil as an act of terror imo.