Being consequential, the real thing to do.

What I DO think is that good wishes evaporate in the air. Prayers are just that, good wishes. Putting up a picture of a flag on your Facebook wall is the same thing. Furthermore, reminding people that they are being hypocrites for not paying attention to other less media-favored societies is exactly the same. Good wishes, ideas, that one week from now will disappear when life becomes, once again, "business as usual".

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French flags on Facebook? No.

I am not putting a French flag on my picture. I refuse to do that because doing so demonstrates exactly what is wrong with this war the world has been in for 14 years now. I stand in solidarity with the French people, but also with those in Lebanon, Syria, Irak, Afghanistan, the United States, and really all humanity at this point. I also stand in solidarity with refugees in Europe, who ran away from terror only to now there being political voices in Europe saying that they shouldn't find peace there either.

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