Teen age boys collude to bully and then rape and then cyber humiliate a 15year old schoolgirl. So what are they thinking and/or feeling? What drives them? What is the cultural setting or petrie dish environment in which these specimens grow? I don’t know that but I do know this. There is no norm left for transmitting decent, honest, caring modelling from their leaders, in Politics, Religion and Commerce. The Church with its Prince in Rome tolerates sexual abuse by priests and preaches forgiveness for child abusers by psychotic adults. Business and the Rich and avoid taxes by using Tax Havens offshore. Government encourages creating a jobless society in a managed race to the economic bottom and return to a wage slave economy. The gap between rich and poor gallops along without restraint. Banks lie. The environment is trashed by Harper acting on behalf of Oil interests. Native Canadians receive no Justice. What ethical framework can we offer our youth while we educate them to compassion, honesty, connectedness, and responsibility? Are we not all hypocrites? When will our outrage at injustice spill over into just saying no and refusing to cooperate with Governments, Churches and Business. When will we insist on teaching dissent at home and at school. We must recover courage and honesty. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead.
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