The depravity of a culture is not measured by the evil things that some people do.  It is measured by how the culture responds to those things.

There is nothing new or surprising about murder.  What is new are the officially-promoted and officially-sanctioned excuses and evasions by which Americans applaud themselves for not reacting properly in response to such crimes.

Once upon a time, I knew a woman who understood these things perfectly.  What to do in response to murder was no mystery to her:  Apprehend the killer, give him a trial, convict him, and escort him from the courtroom to the execution chamber, she said.  Case closed; justice done.

Hatred of responsibility is proof of moral and cultural rot.  The decadence of American culture today is caused not by people who commit murder but by ordinary, “respectable”, “reasonable” Americans who hate the responsibility of enforcing rules and laws more than they hate anything else in life.  Examples of this can be seen a hundred times in everyday life.

That woman was my mother.  She had more sense than all those ordinary, “respectable”, “reasonable” Americans, all the “compassionate Conservatives”, all the Christian do-gooders, and all the forensic psychiatric fools, frauds, and mythmakers in all the world.