Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

What kind of intervention are we kind of mandated to make out of compassion at this stage?

Because I think the other four we've covered in this instance, this one we haven't covered.

And so what would the sociological intervention look like?

Learning from past mistakes where you kind of overthrow a regime and then you replace it with something which is worse.

And that the unfortunately violent revolutions, in my experience, and I lived in Africa during a period of time when many of the African nations were getting their independence from colonial powers.

But they did this through violence.

And what happened is that you just substituted one crowd of dictators with another.

The white colonials were taken out and now you've got black colonials for their own people.

So I'd be really, really sure that, you know, there's a difference between evolution and revolution.

So, you know, how do you balance the two that there needs to be some kind of physical resistance to evil and at the same time that it's an evolutionary trajectory rather than a revolutionary trajectory, that you're not just going to kind of create, you know, violent people in the process of gaining their freedom.

Because once you realize that violence is the quickest way to resolve a problem,

then you tend to use violence for all the other problems you subsequently encounter.

So this really knife-edged dance between evolution and revolution is really important, how we handle this now in such a way that you're not going to kind of create a new breed of monsters in the place of the ayatollahs and the mullahs like that, that people who have achieved their independence and their freedom through physical violence.

So obviously some level of physical resistance is really important.

And the fact that these people, you know, have risked and have paid the cost with their own lives shows me a real, real need, a real strong need in the group and also an extraordinary reserve and a kind of strength in the culture.

And certainly, as fellow citizens of the planet, we need to intervene in some way.

I agree with you that this is a global concern at this stage.

This is not just individual nations doing their own thing.

That's not our business.

We're a global community.