There is just one flesh we can wound
I am discouraged that it seems necessary to say "don't kill Palestinians" or "don't kill Christians in Iraq" or that there is outcry over the plight of the Yazidi. How about "Don't kill people"? It isn't the Palestinian identity, the Christian faith, the Yazidi culture that makes it important not to kill people: it is their humanity. I struggle to understand why this isn't obvious, but apparently...