Reply #209: In my faith tradition, we feel empathy for all victims.

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The minute you raise a gun on another, that person becomes the victim of your violence, and real empathy keeps you from harming them. The question we are called to ask is not "Who's going to pay for the harm done me?", but rather, "How do I see that no one ever suffers such harm?". Violence against those who do violence is not the answer to this question.

The question is not whether my life is valuable, but whether I stop the cycle of violence by being violent. My life is too valuable to give in to violence.