Moral‑purity killings

Political violence increasingly appears as individualized acts driven by moral‑purity motives rather than by organized ideological projects. These attackers seek personal cleansing or symbolic expiation (rather than systemic change), which can hide itself in therapeutic, religious, or status language. — If political violence is shifting toward private moral‑purity motives, counter‑radicalization, media framing, and legal responses must adapt to detect and deter actors outside traditional group templates.