On Mass Murder

I am horrified by Friday’s mass murder in Connecticut. Exterminating children is especially gruesome and evil. I am, however, neither shocked nor surprised in the context of today’s times and I wish people would be a fraction as outraged by the mass murders that happen every other month to other innocent individuals who deserve to live. Or post a single picture of a dead American soldier with commensurate outrage at the systematic mass sacrifice by our government of the young being annihilated for the sake of nothing, as I did last week (read “Sacrifice for Sacrifice’s Sake”, here). Today’s is a culture in which people deny, abet and evade the rise of the irrational every day, as I recently wrote about here. Spurts of emotionalism are no substitute for real progress toward eliminating acts of evil. I stand by what I observed this summer on the day of the last major mass murder (read “Today’s Movie Theater Massacre” here). Everyone should be outraged by Friday’s mass murder, an act of evil which is becoming more common in a death-worshipping culture. But if you want to change the world, change its philosophy.