It's a minor issue after everything that has happened in the last week at Spain, I know. But I can't take it from my mind.
I think the first time I herd the reasoning was stated by Arnaldo Otegui, ETA's political arm speaker, when one of the arguments he stand against an involvement of ETA in the bombs was that "the victims were innocent. They were workers". On the manifestations around Spain against terrorists acts that happend on friday afternoon, several people chanted and showed the same argument: "they were students, blue-collar workers, innocent people who didn't deserve this".
This reasoning sicks me. Are we trying to say that if they were bankers, the pain would have been less? That if they have planted the bombs on a soccer training camp, killing only millonaires playes, mourn should have been declined? That if the killed were ex-convicteds, it could be somehow justified? And not to mention if they were policemen...
I see two dangerous features on this reasoning. The first one is that, although publically speaking, everyone says that the price of a life is infinite, in our mind there are people who are more innoccent than other, who deserve living more than other. And that appears a very fascist and nazi thinking to me.
The second one is that Spain thinking against terrorism hasn't change as much as we wanted to think from the one we had 30 years ago, when the assasination of a policeman, a member of the Guardia Civil or even a politician was seeen as a minor matter, when their funerals were hidden, as if they deserved it somehow.
I cried for everyone of the victims of the attack, didn't matter if there were homeless or bimilionaires. Wealth won't take their lives back: it's shouldn't make differences in why the died.