Terrorism’s main success is degrading civil liberties and public quality of life.

Evidence

However, they succeed in other ways. They instill fear in the general population. Authorities must subject the public to costly surveillance and safety procedures. Terrorist threats result in laws that implement scrutiny of people’s private lives. These outcomes detract from the quality of life. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2194

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the surveillance tradeoff theme in the Israel-Palestine material and, more distantly, Foucault’s panopticon and mass surveillance regimes.