A terrorist attack in New Zealand. Yesterday. 50 bodies. One killer. Condolences were expressed by Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Queen Elizabeth II, Barack Obama, the entire European Union represented by Federica Mogherini, and many others. The event is undoubtedly tragic. However, now the question arises: why do such events attract our attention and the attention of our leaders? Is it only because of their tragedy, or are there other reasons?
First, for reference, a bit of statistics: every day (!) 150,000 people die in the world, 40,000 of them from hunger. 3000 people die daily in road traffic accidents, and 1000 people become victims of murderers. A thousand. Every day.
In the mosques of Christchurch, 50 people died. Each of them will be buried with honors, as innocent victims, while we will never know about the rest of the thousand killed on the same day. And about those who will be killed tomorrow, too. And the day after tomorrow.
Why is the Ostankino Tower not shut down daily in memory of those who died on the roads? After all, only in Russia it is more than a hundred people a day. What makes fifty people from New Zealand better than our compatriots? Why do we mourn the entire country for them, but not for those who die daily from cancer or heart attacks?
I think the main reason for the global mourning is not that women and children died. They die, as statistics show, every day in much larger numbers, and they are no less innocent than the Muslims from the New Zealand church. The point is different. Each such terrorist attack, and they are happening more and more often lately, let’s remember Andreas Breivik, who killed 77 people in an attack on the Norwegian Labour Party youth camp in 2011, or Dylan Roof, who shot nine parishioners of an African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, is, firstly, an excellent news reason for thousands of journalists around the world, and secondly, and this is the main point, a threat to the fundamental principles of morality on which the power in all countries of the modern world is based.
It is not the fact of death and murder that angers us, but the fact that one person allowed himself to do what only God is allowed to do (let’s remember the thousands of daily deaths from cancer, stroke, or road accidents) and … to the state. In fact, 28-year-old Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant executed 50 people yesterday without trial or investigation. Well, there was a trial and investigation, and Tarrant outlined their conclusions in his manifesto, but this trial is not part of the US justice system, and this is what angers Donald Trump and together with him the entire American people.
With his actions, Brenton Tarrant encroached on a centuries-old formula of power on which modern society is built: to execute or pardon is decided either by God or his representative on earth - the state, in the person of, for example, Donald Trump. Not so much fifty unknown Muslims became victims of Tarrant, as the entire system of state power in New Zealand, and with it the whole world.
Speaking in strictly legal terms, the object of the crime called a terrorist act is always not the deceased people, but “public security” (see Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation or Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). And the world community cannot reconcile itself with such a crime against itself. In this, the leaders of all countries are united - no one is allowed to take away their right to judge, to pass sentence, to execute and pardon.
And, by the way, read the manifesto.
Translated by ChatGPT gpt-3.5-turbo/42 on 2024-04-20 at 17:39
