I love this: in response to an act of violence - claimed by ISIS - pope Francis made clear in a Q&A session that violence appears in all religions, and that one cannot equate Islam with violence. Violence is violence, and it is perpetrated every day also by baptised Catholics. In response to that, hundreds of Muslims attended mass in several churches and countries the following Sunday, to show their solidarity and brotherhood and sisterhood with their Christian friends on a deep level.
This is the formula:
One act of violence affecting a few => many many more people respond by coming closer together, and share this with the world => we up-humanize (instead of de-humanize) each other, and future acts of violence become less likely, and we feel more at home in the world.
That's the way to respond! Then we are moving our society in a good direction! Then we are using whatever happens in our world to a good end!
(note that I am of course in no way arguing against that the police should keep doing their job to prevent and catch violent people as well - I am just arguing that the above formula is the way to help them a long way in the prevention step)
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