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There is something to say that when people see a violent death, it's hard not to feel a fitri, a human sense of devastation.

That this is terrible when you see something like that.

And again, for the proper disclaimer,

I don't condone that type of violence here or anywhere, right?

But for people to say or feel a sense that this is terrible,

no matter how terrible the person was, it feels terrible because from a fitri perspective,

we're human beings.

We've been created that way that when we see blood spill, we're supposed to feel a natural

sense of repulsion.

That's who we've been created to be.

But I want to offer the following two things.

That fitra will have us respond both in regards to our proximity to someone's life

or our proximity to their death.

What do I mean by that?

Remember when Kobe Bryant died?

There were other people in the helicopter too.

No one remembers their names.

Why?

Because our kids and those of us who were watching

basketballer who knew Kobe Bryant from afar, right? But we felt like, especially any cultural

icon, you felt like you knew someone in life. Therefore, their death rocks you in a different way.

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