It's ugly, but let's hang onto some sense of proportion. Fast & Furious killed hundreds of people. Nobody died from the Penn State scandal, with the possible exception of that attorney.
Sense of proportion? Do you have any idea the impact that being raped has on a child?
Oh, REALLY????
Thou Shalt not Kill, but [Soul] Murder is Fine
"If human beings were basically good, it wouldn't be necessary to have an injunction against murder. In fact, it is the last thing we would need. People would, as a matter of course, realize how infinitely precious their own life is, and then, through a natural process of empathy, understand that everyone else's life is equally precious, and that would be that. Murder would be inconceivable because it would represent the ultimate injustice: the theft of something of infinite value which can never be replaced. .....
"Ironically, leftist nihilists rarely cite the Ten Commandments, but you will often hear them cite "thou shalt not kill" in support of their nihilist policies. Interesting that they misinterpret the one commandment of which they approve.
"And the reason they misinterpret this particular commandment is that it dovetails nicely with their deeply nihilistic and pacifist tendencies. For when you conflate murder and killing, you do two things: first, you minimize and even trivialize the horror of murder -- very similar to feminists who trivialize the horror of rape by equating it with any sex a woman regrets on the following day. But secondly, you convert the use of lethal violence against evil, which is a moral necessity, into something bad. Once again, you have overturned the moral order of the world. ......
"Most ___soul murders___ are undoubtedly committed by those who are already so spiritually damaged as to be functionally dead. ...... created when the soul has been so damaged that it essentially exits the body, ____leaving only a grotesque human-animal in its place____. ......
"[They] also cannot help converting..children to their way of non-being. In ways both subtle and profound, they will interact with ...children in a pathological manner, causing the children to internalize the same virus that afflicts [them]. Regardless, the virus always goes by the name of “love,” which simply further confuses the child. In the end, they will not be able to distinguish the difference between love and hate or truth and lies, any more than they can distinguish between life and death. ..........." bttt