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A big exemption...
Someone quotes another definition of terrorism:
"The definition of terrorism is "The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological." Sounds like this fits."
Why exempt the people who write and enforce the laws?
I think it's perfectly reasonable to consider the Nazi state terrorist - and it was writing the laws, not breaking them - and the resistance non-terrorist.
Yet the quoted definition considers the resistance terrorist - since they were trying to destroy the Nazi state - and the Nazi state non-terrorist.