[...] the fact that New Zealand is even being considered for such a bizarre event pretty much proves the point that New Zealand has always been friendly to people from other cultures - and still is. Brenton Tarrant was a foreign interloper, not a New Zealander.

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I value the principles which became the hallmarks of Western democracy, made possible by the Age of Reason; religious tolerance (a wall between religion and state), a commitment to scientific inquiry,...