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PHI 208 Week 5 Assignment.edited.docx    PHI 208  A Thin Line Between Patriotism and Terrorism: The I.R.A.  PHI 208: Ethics & Moral Reasoning   Part 1:  Ethical Question  Should an organization like the Irish Republican Army be labeled a terrorist organization if what they are doing is to better their way of life and country?  Part 2:  Introduction  While the Irish Republican Army is considered a terrorist organization due to the decades of countless violence and deaths by their hands, they are a group of people that have stood up for what they believed in so they could keep their way of living.  If another country were to come to the United States and attempt to take over, and a group of people stood up to them at all costs, they would be labeled patriots.  Northern Ireland did not want to be under British rule and wished to reunify Ireland as one country. To the supporters of the I.R.A. and Sinn Fein (the political party ba