re: #23 A Man for all Seasons

The way this story unfolded today was horrific. At first it seemed a minor national interest with a few people being shot ( that happens every week in America ) I’m sick to my stomach with sadness and disgust tonight.

That right there is part of the problem, isn’t it? We’ve become inured to the tragedy of it. It’s like some kind of monumentally fucked up cultural Overton Window.

Just one innocent life—what is the loss? The loss is everyone whose lives they would have touched by word or action, and the lives those people would have touched in turn, like concentric circles. And all of their descendents… how many hundreds, nay thousands of people over many generations would they have touched? Just innocent one life—to kill one innocent truly is like like killing all of mankind.