I have to be honest here. In the last two days I’ve been feeling quite down and morally sick due to the recent news.

Firstly, the horror shocked the world once again. This time the macabre lottery fell in New Zealand when a human (not a person) killed 50 people shooting them. Sadly this kind of horrific events have been relatively common recently and I know that some people would say “this is not new, this has been happening always; even worst in the past”. But I would reply: “Ok, but is this less serious then? are we comparing killing number of people now?”. When something like this happens I can hear people trying to normalize what it is absolutely not normal; trying to show a perspective that is sick and cold, not thinking and respecting who really suffer this: the victims.

There is something new this time: the shooting was planned to be live-streamed and make it viral. Never happened before. Leaving aside the problematic of how things like this can be stopped and blocked (which is a good conversation of the technology side), the fact is that the video went viral showing publicly the failure of Facebook to detect this kind of videos (the New Zealand police were the one to notify Facebook that a massacre was being streamed live in their platform).

I watched the video; unfortunately. I could see how horrible this was and how someone can calmly do something like this. Also I could see that there is no ideological reason, no manifesto, no social culture or religion can someone lead to this. The news said he is a supremacist, he is anti-islamist, etc., but the reality is that he wanted to kill. That is all. Do not get fooled by people, media, institutions saying that his motivations were this or that… The only real motivation was to kill; no matter who was the victim.

Secondly, another act of horror happened. This was in Spain where a young couple killed their two little kids (3 years and 6 months). How on Earth a mother and a father can kill their own children? Similar to the first event above, in the news appeared multiple reasons why they did this: they are under psychiatric treatment, they are drug addicts, etc. Again, another attempt to normalize the fact that it is anti-natura. Specially when is about killing a child, I do strongly believe there is absolutely no redemption with someone who does this. In my opinion, these humans should not be allowed to live.

I saw and felt the dark side of human race these last days. It is a painful feeling indeed, but nothing compared to what the poor victims of these acts have felt; I cannot imagine it… We must not try to normalize these acts. This is really wrong and we must do something to stop it. This is what is really important and must be first priority to everyone who works for the society (politicians) and not Brexit, elections, economy, etc.

It is very sad to think that in a week from now (and probably less time) these two acts will be forgotten in the news and political debates.

Note: I regret watching the shooting live video. Although it made me to realized the crudity of it, it should never happen. I think of all the victims, their families and friends.