I am (white, Christian) French. I don&#x27;t support the &quot;minute&quot; of silence. It means there is a full range of opinions which lead one to not recognizing the minute of silence. I&#x27;ll detail my opinion for an example, but many other opinions must be respected too.<p>1. We don&#x27;t do a minute of silence for 300 ppl per month who die in car accidents. Nor for 200 per fortnight for passive second hand smoking. The characteristics are the same: They&#x27;re innocent, they&#x27;re taken away suddenly in atrocious conditions, and they&#x27;re taken at random.<p>2. A minute of silence, whether you like it or not, is a political gesture. The more we do a minute of silence, the less there will be opposition to repressive actions by the gouvernent. Look: the law says the Etat d&#x27;Urgence is limited to 15 days, they&#x27;ve extended it to 3 months and they want to extend it to a Permanent Etat d&#x27;Urgence.<p>3. We don&#x27;t listen to terrorists. They may be protesting against very legitimate things with a very similar number of crimes. As a citizen of the occident, I am collectively responsible for Guantanamo and Irak and Palestine and all wars that have destroyed the future of youngsters in those countries. Who&#x27;s to say I should do a minute of silence for the French and not for the Palestinians or Iraqis who have been subjected to torture?<p>4. A minute of silence will encourage France to perform war. Terrorism cannot be won with war. We&#x27;re just destroying someone&#x27;s land in a country where I don&#x27;t know the cultural situation. 100% sure we are creating tomorrow&#x27;s terrorists.<p>5. Those terrorists? They were born in France. It&#x27;s a failure of our social system. We are racist, we don&#x27;t give them enough future economically. I once was an Australian immigrant: When there&#x27;s huge bucks to be made, there&#x27;s no time for subversion.<p>6. France is in economic dismay. Hence the difficulty of the youth to earn enough for an optimistic living. Hence please don&#x27;t send an aircraft carrier, we&#x27;re digging our debt, if not or grave. With two billions, let&#x27;s hire teachers and lower our taxes on wages so we can get more jobs.<p>7. Let&#x27;s not give the terrorists what they wanted: Everyone is impressed by the violence, so during the next 10 years well start to think it&#x27;s normal that all concert halls have to have x-more entrances. Those will have a huge cost on culture. We&#x27;ll say it&#x27;s normal to implement  stringent security measures, without looking at the cost. I bet people will even use it as an excuse for everything: &quot;Because of security measure, you are required to ditch your bottle of water, pay per card,  hire the official coach instead of walking there, ...&quot;. A minute of silence today, and during 15 years any objection to everyday security will be frowned upon.<p>I don&#x27;t support the terrorists. But I don&#x27;t support government-sponsored minutes of silence either. And I say this as a white, male, French, conservatist person.