Can you find any reason to pour acid on an infant? or rather , would you like to live in a world where this sort of behavior seemed commonplace? Pseudo gladiatorial games (football, hockey etd. ). are a present  rendition of these old forms of blood sport.  This is the modern cultural difference. A compromise. that might be a sign of cultural  maturity. No one has to die.

An innocent soul ,devastated.

FACT is if there are so many who are the paragons of virtue and passivity you can raise an arny in any country on the globe in about a week.  When it comes to cutting a rubber tree in 120 heat, going to work is a sour option to .The tug of war between our demons and angels is touch and go. We are in a  constant tug of war between the better angels of our nature and the selfish demons of our primitive needs. The great question is, however; how can we know when it is the right time and circumstance to use our strength and courage? An old A.A. sampler,  “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Of the simple mandates in this piece, the toughest to follow is the last statement: “the wisdom to know the difference.” This task should keep a good man busy for the rest of his life. But ! Even if he finds no answers, it is the search that makes him righteous!

God bless the victims of the cowardly attack on the middle school in question.

But please take this away from this piece…….In declaring schools no gun zones it is the same as advertising to your roving sociopath that  this is his stop and the shopping is hot! A feminized union culls out those with masculine tendencies, The cultural atmosphere is that of a building full of females who are terrified of guns and no threat at all.