Thinking aloud - An Appropriate Response

I guess when we face most issues in life one of the things which we must determine is 'what is an appropriate response to the situation we find ourselves in?
God, when He saw the state mankind had got themselves into, decided that the appropriate response was to give the life of His Son so that mankind might have a way back to Himself.
On this remembrance day we acknowledge the fact that many people, particularly in the two big wars of the 20th century, felt that the appropriate response was to lay down their lives so that the rest of us would not be overrun by evil regimes.
As we think back to the holocaust, there is much criticism that the western world allowed discrimination against,and eventual attempts at the extermination of, the Jews to go on for far too long without intervention - an example of an inappropriate response.
As we think about the state of our world today with a few having an over abundance while the vast majority live in poverty we have to ask the question - what is an appropriate response?