I just want to say by no means am I condoning their actions. Killing people who with no direct involvement in the conflict is a fucked up thing. It is wrong, no question. It may not be possible to reason with people with such a mentality.
The issue is less of stopping the problem at hand but more of preventing new ones. What's the point of curbing terrorism through brute force methods only to create new ones in the next generation?
@Steve C You're right on those points but perhaps I should clarify more. Of course you can't mourn and stop your life for everything that happens. It wouldn't be possible and frankly, as you said, I'm not going to care for most of them. But to say you can judge and condemn anyone without so much of a thought on who they are and why they did this isn't quite right either.
My intention wasn't to say you can't judge others. If someone kills your child you have every right to. But maybe it's not as shallow and straightforward as someone killing for the sake of killing.
I think a part of having empathy is to look at others as a fellow human. Perhaps it'd be worth your effort in your busy lives to give it some thought--why did he or she do this.
Now I'm not some idealistic shit calling for hand holding and singing kumbahya with a killer. But as long as we judge them at face value we’ll never be rid of events like this. But I suppose as long as it doesn't happen to you, it's not your problem.
but the above two things from your post are two things which I did want to say a few words on. The question of "do we really care"...Yes people do really care, but in life you can't stop your life and mourn continuously for everything that happens in the world. The human race is programed to carry on, to move forward and to overcome, as well as to simply live OUR own lives. That's the key right there IMO, we live OUR lives and the things that are in our lives. If I were to tell you something bad that happened in my life I'm sure you would care, but truth is what happened in my life honestly does not fully impact your life so you do care, but you will continue on with your own life because if you really sat and mourned for every bad thing that happened in everyone's lives then your life would be useless to live. Because it would be in a constant state of depression and mourning. So yes IMO people can care and can express true sorrow for those effected, and yet still continue on with their own lives.
