Many of us rightly feel distress and moral outrage at the attack in London,leaving some innocent people dead, some with horrific injuries. That feeling is only human. Such deaths and injuries, or much magnified,occur more or less daily in, for example, and Syria,Yemen and Iraq – yet receive proportionately far less distress and outrage from us. That too seems to be human. Ought not that discrepancy to cause us some moral unease? Or does that question’s implication propose a foolish “citizen of the world” attitude which Theresa May rejects as being a citizen of nowhere?
Peter Cave
London• “It is not an act of war,” you say in your editorial (23 March). Exactly. It was a disastrous error of judgment when the “war against terrorism was declared. Until that point all governments had insisted acts of terrorism were criminal acts. Calling them acts of war helps to glorify the unjust, and lends unwarranted dignity to cowardly and pointless slaughter.
Pete Stockwell
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Source: theguardian.com