I can't even express my shock at reading this story. It seems every day we're confronted with more evidence that the value of human life has been drastically eroded. I sometimes worry that what we're seeing is not the exception but the rule, that something dark and sick has grown pervasive in our society and breaks through whenever our illusion of a life of comfort and without personal responsibility stretches too thin and cracks.
I then wonder if I'm just a worry wart, but seeing the way many people interact with one another in all sorts of conditions of anonymity (driving for one) makes me think otherwise. I try to be compassionate, but compassion and sympathy only feed the disease here. This sort of inhumanity thrives on ingesting our highest virtues and spitting them back as death.
" It seems every day we're confronted with more evidence that the value of human life has been drastically eroded. I sometimes worry that what we're seeing is not the exception but the rule, that something dark and sick has grown pervasive in our society and breaks through whenever our illusion of a life of comfort and without personal responsibility stretches too thin and cracks. I then wonder if I'm just a worry wart, but seeing the way many people interact with one another in all sorts of conditions of anonymity (driving for one) makes me think otherwise."
I feel as you do. I fear for my children's future living in this society because more and more people seem to be becoming more and more barbaric and evil. Young people are being conditioned (in the public schools and in more homes than most would like to believe) not to take responsibility for their actions, to take risks that hurt others, and to take out their own bad feelings on others whenever they feel like it. In addition, the courts and trial lawyers have become terrible enablers of evil, much more than they used to be (and the Rats do everything they possibly can to keep good appointments off the bench.) It's frightening.