I am not about to come up with rules for being a human being, but if there were such of thing, in the face of tragedy the rule might be when something terrible and painful happens it is time to step aside and let grief take its proper place. Apparently the President has muscled the natural movement of international grief aside in the tragedy and lose of life in the Washington plane/helicopter crash to make political hay apparently only for himself and a few members of his team. 

How utterly ironic. The person right now who might most need some part of DEI right now just might be the person trying to crush it. Not to be able to read human emotion and feedback in real time is usually perceived as an organic disability requiring intervention, reasonable accommodation and treatment. How does one reasonably accommodate a person which so much power in a position newly insulated from consequence? I fear for the lessons we are about to learn as a nation.

No we are all human beings, even the most emotionally blind among us. In making the next good decision I must first run my rage and then set it aside like a spent rag. As a nation we have to find a way to accommodate what appears to be a dangerous condition. In mental health this dilemma occurs hundreds of times every day in friends and families across the nation. The first rule I would think about being human is simply remembering that we are, president to pauper, all humans. All interventions must be governed by mercy, grace, and a certainty that something has to happen to change the course leading to another predictable tragedy. Choosing the action of what happens next is ‘the good decision’.