As others have mentioned, a fantastic article. It occurs to me an awful reality may need to happen to limit the effect of overreaction. We become inured to the media drumbeat of bad news. Quiet proportional sympathy is ideal. For those who find patience challenging, numbness may have the same effect and thus reduce the terrorist’s desire to inflict terror. One cannot transmit pain if the other doesn’t feel it. But then that suggests a state of being comfortably numb. I may have to listen to that song again.