Silence is not neutrality; it is a position. Hesitation is not wisdom; it is an indirect participation in shaping a world where laws become flexible in the face of power and rigid in the face of victims. What is happening today does not concern one place alone鈥攊t touches the very idea upon which the global order was built after great wars: that human life is not negotiable.

Once this principle is broken, breaking it becomes easier every time that follows.