You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
system
In other words terrorism puts democracies in a dilemma Can democratic society be defended without resorting to undemocratic methods and thereby undermining the very democracy we are trying to protect

Could you correct the punctuation please?
user
"In other words, terrorism puts democracies in a dilemma: Can democratic society be defended without resorting to undemocratic methods, and thereby undermining the very democracy we are trying to protect?"

Here are the changes I made and the reasons:
1. Added a comma after "In other words" to set off the introductory phrase.
2. Added a colon after "dilemma" to introduce the question that follows.
3. Added a comma after "methods" to separate the two independent clauses.
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