[Theodore R.]

I cannot understand how so many American seem to get satisfaction from seeing poor Terri dehydrated and starved. Are the American people just becoming an offshoot of the ancient Romans, who demanded "bread and circuses" from the "government" and relished at the death of gladiators?

[sweetliberty]

I have a tentative hypothesis. I think the consciences of those who have turned against God have become so deadened that they seek increasingly more gruesome and perverse ways of convincing themselves THEY are alive.

An oversimplification perhaps, but as good an explanation as any.