Secular society does grieving rather poorly.
It has now become,somehow de rigeur to hold a minute's silence at noon the day after the latest terrorist outrage.
Quite why the Labour-run pro-Austerity Council here in Wakefield deems it a requirement that all those using their library have to take part in an act of faux- remembrance for these or those victims whenever and wherever terrorists strike or a disaster occurs is nothing short of a stain on the autonomy and liberties and rights of the individual.
Virtue signalling and superficial piety really are worthless.
Today it was for the more than 40 worshippers at a mosque in New Zealand ; but aren't all sudden and violent losses of life equally important irrespective of the immediate causes of that imposed loss of life?
On March 10, 157 passengers and crew perished after an Ethiopian Airlines 737 crashed.I don't recall Wakefield Metropolitan District Council enforce an act of remembrance upon the users of its services at noon the day after that.
The insane plethora of school /college related shootings in the USA,the wave of Islamic Terrorist atrocities across western europe and the UK -Manchester Arena, The Bataclan etc.etc. They have become,by their sheer repetitiveness almost ephemeral in character.
The loss of a single life is a tragedy,the loss of many,a statistic.
Deal with it.
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