I think we need to stop reporting these the way we do to keep perspective.
Caveat: I understand we can't for many reasons, I just think we need to.
By making this world renowned news, it moves needles in policy decision towards ideas that are reckless, bad for world peace, and not based in fact.
By making this small act a large message, you embolden those with messages we don't care to hear. This wasn't hard to do, nor was it particularly deadly. The effect was perfect. Some sound bites from world leaders and more pressure to "act".
In reality, more people in the US have died because of climate change. More have died because of the opiate crisis. More are dying because of vaccine preventable diseases. Hell, more people probably died of heat stroke in the last year on the Champs Elysees. There's literally thousands of things to be preoccupied with over this. This shouldn't move any needles.
Not only is this not something to be "terrorized" over, it's not worth discussion.
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