OPINION: Perhaps one way to honor the memory of the 6- and 7-year-olds killed at Sandy Hook, writes Leah Hager Cohen, is by committing to try, collectively, for some measure of exquisite curiosity.
. What it also brought — and this, too, started within hours of the shooting: conspiracy theorists who accused the grieving family members of being “crisis actors” perpetrating a “hoax.” Their relentless campaign resulted in an ongoing form of torture, as the bereft were hounded for years by abuse and threats of violence.
What makes people hate other people? What makes us fall prey to the delusion that we’re not all connected? How can we remind ourselves that we are? When my mother was dying, she observed, “People just want to be loved.” All her life she’d been smart in a dazzling, complex manner, but towards the end her intelligence grew distilled and elemental. She became wise in a simple way. “Try to love them,” she said.
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