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 In his article "How We Defined Deviancy Down and Got a Culture of Violence," Gilbert Sewall writes - "'Was there a part of you that was like, this isn’t real, this would not happen in my school?' A ghoulish ABC television reporter asked a Santa Fe High School student this, expecting a stock answer that would fit the conventional wisdom. 'No there wasn't,' she replied coolly. 'It's been happening everywhere. I’ve always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here too. So, I don’t know. I wasn't surprised. I was just scared.' "Against our will, we are getting used to the carnage. This time, a spurned fatty given to black Goth-ish clothing and video games fatally shot 10 students and teachers and injured 13 others near Houston. 'Surprise!' he shouted, as he jumped from the closet into a classroom, mowing down classmates and a would-be girlfriend." The article refers to "Defining Deviancy Down" written in 1993 by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in which he stated that our country is "redefining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the 'normal' level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier standard." When we turn away from historic Christian morality and say that everything is relative and anything goes, we get the current state of affairs: a culture that normalizes senseless violence. We must place a news blackout on these mass killings: such publicity encourages "copycat" action by psychologically unstable boy-men who know their name will go down in history and they will receive a life sentence or less in a hotel-like setting. Instead, we need laws for murder of three or more people requiring a fair but swift trial and the death penalty by public firing squad. That kind of publicity would discourage these "copycats." Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |