Tuesday, June 05, 2012

It's funny how people can come to the wrong conclusions when they learn about bizarre and large scale crimes.  It's apparently in human nature to focus on the unusual kinds of misfortunes that draw your attention and reflexively.

To be sure, Luke Magotta deserves to be called "The Canadian Psycho" for his brazen and grotesque crimes and the idea that a crook like Christopher Husbands could be allowed to escape house arrest to shoot up the Eaton Center food court is a damning failure of our justice system. However, people killed in auto accidents and kitchen mishaps each year than criminal attacks and there is no panic about them.

It seems like there are too many people and institutions who have a warped sense of moral priorities.  Leaving aside certain governments for now as too obvious examples, there is the Vatican whining about the "harm" a book about a nun's personal thoughts about sex. The fact that church persistently covered up child molestation by their priests for generations means that that organization has no right to dictate sexual morality to anyone.

All a matter of perspective I guess.

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