RE: Connecticut Massacre: The Real Questions
December 23, 2012 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2012 at 10:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't recall hearing much about Norways "culture of death".......probably because a culture of death isn;t required for an unhinged individual to go, you know, unhinged. In the US, like nearly everywhere else I've been, murder and death are at the very low end of the social landscape. We -could- accept a society where one is surveiled, data-based, and presumed guilty of a crime and litigated against before-the-fact....or, we could accept that a free society will have, built within it, the leeway required for unhinged individuals to do whatever it is they're going to do, likely only to be held accountable after they have done so.
We're currently going with the latter, if that's what it means to be a culture of death, so be it.
We're currently going with the latter, if that's what it means to be a culture of death, so be it.
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