This week globally has been a terrible and tragic week. The ISIS bombings in Paris have shaken the world and filled the news, the papers and our daily lives. The majority of my friends have altered their profile pictures on Facebook to have a French background supposedly to show that their thoughts are with the victims in France and their families and of those affected collaterally. At first I believed this to be slightly superficial as changing ones profile picture achieved nothing in the grand scheme of things other than possibly gaining the person more likes. However with more and more and more of my friends doing this, the mass scale of this subtle and small gesture has truly shown a solidarity that reflects true human acts of kindness and compassion. Solidarity has been shown all over the world in recent days for example the Saracens singing the French national anthem alongside Toulouse before their game on Saturday or even just the minutes silence demonstrated at school this morning. These small deeds were, I believe a perfect and powerful response to ISIS’ unhuman and disgusting acts demonstrating where the worlds loyalties lie and how they all stand in the situation.
Of course we could not stop there. The active bombing of a capital city is, by most interpretations a declaration of war, However, an immediate retaliation of bombs on the ISIS headquarters I believe is not only foolish but quite frankly immature. Remembrance Sunday brought me a reminder of what the outcome of war is, Death and an unsatisfactory peace. In these ‘civilised’ times I believe there must be a way to solve a dispute or even an unprovoked aggravator without violence but with democracy and reasoning. I may myself be foolish and I may be immature but I believe that a constant peace will not happen until it is found through peaceful means.
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