The weakness of some people who lose their **** over something such as this is just laughable. As cruel and heartless as it might sound people need to accept that people will die to terrorists of every stripe. It's an inevitability: the bomber (or the truck driver in this case) will get through sometimes no matter what you even if you tried to shot and kill every swarthy looking foreigner on sight. You can either accept this inevitability and do you best to reduce the risks involved or give in to fear and terror while making everything far worse for everyone.
Seriously, it's eight people dead. If this is an intentional attack it's hardly even noteworthy unless there has been some serious security oversights. Even completely accidental car accidents have killed more people at once. People ought to start worry when suicide bombing terrorists blow up 50-100+ people with impunity. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?) people pay far more attention, and place more value and importance, on a single German than perhaps 10 or even 30 people found in countries such as Syria, Iraq or Yemen.
Agree and disagree. The chances of being killed by a terrorist are very, very low, and only the prominence of the attacks in the psyche makes it seem otherwise. Too, any innocent death is worth the same lament, no more, no less, regardless. This includes, of course, the Muslims who are most often targeted, far more than anyone else currently.
Where I disagree is in the domain of analysis, affecting the nature of any solutions sought. What the attack, and many other current events highlight, is the complete dependence of modern society on a minimum level of cohesion and trust. These, in turn, depend on a shared sense of common humanity. That is being undermined very broadly and is under attack not only from religious fanatics, but also from racists, authoritarians, mistaken PC warriors, and just about every stupid dogma one can list.
The real war is with unreason and irrationality as policy (inevitable as human traits), while there are specific battles to be won against religious extremism, fascism, and all their deadly buddies brandishing dogma as truth anywhere. The world needs to get off the absolute truth fix: "Since I'm
so right, you die!"
Just take a gander at the last Republican convention: a wild lynch mob drunk on irrational woo... but Trump-True! When any dogma says "it's you who are the real victim and you need to punish all the perps," look out. That's when you get Dutarte and his American shadow, the GOP.
