Don’t let psychopathic murderers suppress our common humanity | George Monbiot

In the face of horror, let no one distract us from the magnificent facts of our nature: neither the terrorists nor those who demand we lash outIt is a blow to the heart: an atrocity whose purpose was to kill and maim as many children and teenagers as possible. No parent, hearing the voices of those still seeking news of their children, could fail to imagine the frantic play of hope and despair, the terrible wrenching of attachment. The person or people who did this meant to hit where it hurts mo