Even extreme colonial repression does not justify every retaliatory act.

Evidence

The Algerian leaders who, in view of the intensity of the repression and the frenzied character of the oppression, thought they could answer the blows received without any serious problems of conscience, discovered that the most horrible crimes do not constitute a sufficient excuse for certain decisions. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 189

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s core question of how colonial death/dying was experienced by both colonizer and colonized, and the moral psychology of the colonizer minority.

Related

• Algerian revolutionary leaders weighed three distinct political and moral concerns against retaliation. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism is held causally responsible for every single Algerian death (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.79)
• Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger (similarity 0.79)
• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.79)
• Centuries of oppression produce physiological violence in the colonized (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror (similarity 0.79)
• Each Algerian generation grows harder rather than wearier against colonialism (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial (similarity 0.78)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.78)