Contra Celsum has an incredibly insightful post up on the normalisation of evil in New Zealand. Read it all.
Related Link: An Avatar of the Hand of God ~ Contra Celsum
The country has been shocked by the murder of Nia Glassie. How could five adults in modern New Zealand effectively torture a three year old child, for whom they were responsible, to death? This question has two dimensions. The first dimension is to focus upon the guilty. Brute evil is never attractive. It is horrific. The community is shocked, horrified, and angered that four people could be so callous, so brutish, and so wicked. The inhumanness of the act appalls.
Yet there is something disturbingly familiar about these young people. They look normal! They are. They look like everyone of us! Correct. They look like they could be our young people! Right again! We desperately want to demonise them, but we struggle because they are so ordinary and every day. They are so human! So people throw up their hands in despair and ask, “What on earth is going on?” Our answer is clear: it is a sign of God's wrath upon our culture. Evil, gross evil, is being allowed to become normal. Ordinary people are doing grotesque and depraved things. We are being given an initial glimpse of Hell upon earth, an initial glimpse of what awaits us.
Related Link: An Avatar of the Hand of God ~ Contra Celsum
Entropy in action?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Lucyna.
ReplyDeleteJT
Take away God and you take away fear of judgment and sooner or later people figure out that there is no one to answer to. You know the justice systems of today are a joke.
ReplyDeleteWhat i'm waiting for is when people are going to translate their shock, horror and all that to votes and demand their politicians really get tough and show them the door when they don't.
Exactly. Every time I read someone calling them inhuman I kept saying nooooooo you are missing it.
ReplyDeleteThe reason we can hold them accountable for their actions and the reason we find what they did so abhorrent is that they are human. If a lion tore a child apart we wouldn't hold it guilty and we wouldn't be shocked.
Another slant is that this is possibly the result denial of the transcendent and "monetisation" of children.
ReplyDeleteBy attaching monetary advantages and disadvantages to children depending on your social position, the dignity of the child is removed and the parent then regards them as a commodity. This human commodity can then be aborted or used as a token for state-funded annuity.
Abuse follows naturally once the general position of children and life is widely devalued.
Another way, if the bell-curved moral average of society is shifted, don't be surprised if the fringes of society magnify that "progression".