VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Decline of Western Civilization in a Few Paragraphs.

We all could become Mr. Winslows today with the full assurance that the capital and labor of our society will be heavily invested in seeing that the convicted DUI driver who kills us has had plenty of prior opportunity to practice his craft, that driving drunk at 120 mph is not necessarily reason to be charged with a crime, and that when our killers face possible consequences they will claim that their addictions were caused by unloving stepfathers and perverted babysitters, and will more likely have their personnel stories aired than will the deceased and innocent.

We live in a deeply diseased society in which we care little about the victim and a great deal about the perpetrators.