Moral Bankruptcy
Okay, I’m confused. You see, this morning, some terrorists blew up some rush hour trains in Madrid, killing lots of commuters. This is a horrible thing, I’m not debating that.
However, I’ve read any number of statements recently about how things are getting worse and worse. The quote that sparked this particular post, however, was this: “it seems that our moral fabric is being shredded, inch by inch.” Now, that’s complete bull. Things are no worse now than ever, in terms of humanities capacity to commit attrocities.
Nothing that Al Queda (currently being blamed for the Madrid bombs) has done even comes close to comparing to the Holocost or the Pogroms of Stalin. The Romans fed captives to starvin lions as a spectator sport. Throughout history, there have been whole cultures that castrated every woman in them, to keep them from cheating. This still happens today, but less than it used to. Historically, female children have frequently been killed at birth, for the horrible crime of being female. The list goes on and on.
Humanity has always been capable of horrific atrocities. This is nothing new. The only difference is we have to work less to make those attrocities directly affect more people, and we have good news services to spread the information far and wide.
Face it, folks. We’re not getting worse, we just can no longer hide our nastyness within our own borders.
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