Truck crashes into Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France

For those feeling anger - even possibly feeling the answer is blame or hate, or even war...

That isn't there solution here. Right now, we need to seek love and unity. People become lone wolves when they feel marginalised and hated by society, and the best defence society has against this is the understanding and inclusion of all people, regardless of race or religion. The best defence against terrorism is cooperation.

Groups like ISIS seek to encourage disenchanted people - those who feel society hates them and is set against them - to commit heinous acts out of the warped view there is a war between some twisted version of Islam and everyone else. These acts, ISIS hopes, will cause more and more people to hate Muslims - driving others into their arms.

So the way to defeat groups like ISIS is to take this away from them. That is the best power to use against them - it exploits their greatest weakness. Show them and the people who would commit acts of terror in their name that THERE IS NO WAR.

Show them the world can get along regardless or race or religion.

Show them people do not give a shit if someone is Muslim, Christian, atheist, whatever. That all people have value; that race or religion or lack of religion is fucking meaningless in defining a person's value.

Fundamentalism and extremism feed off the idea everyone else is wrong - and the best cure for this delusion is to show the people who seek to impose their will on others that they are the ones who are wrong, who always will be wrong. They are mistaken in thinking they can destroy the world with hate. They are mistaken in thinking humanity will tear itself apart at their beck and call, for their senseless gratification.

Fuck them. Fuck them right to hell, because they will always be wrong.

There is no war.

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