Morality and Justice

A wise man recently said that the speed of technological improvement in the world is matched only by the speed of moral decay. I gotta go along with that one. A recent survey of young Americans found that the vast majority of them had no ability whatsoever to make moral decisions. In fact, most of those questioned couldn't even define what a moral decision might be. The overwhelming response to the surveyors was that there were no concrete values, that there were no absolute truths, and that morality was a relative concept to be decided by each individual. Another survey found that a majority of young Americans don't see anything wrong with lying or cheating, "as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else." The guiding philosophy is that you should do whatever feels good to you at the moment, and the basic guideline is to try not to get caught. As another wise person said some years ago, we started out to teach our children the concept of freedom; instead we taught them irresponsibility. And this is the rising generation who in a very short time will be taking over our country. I see dark times ahead. I bring up this gloom and doom stuff because of the Amanda Knox trial. This is the second time in just a few short months that a young American woman has essentially gotten away with murder, largely because of a huge media blitz by their supporters. The first was Casey Anthony, the young woman accused of murdering her daughter and hiding the body. So now it seems that even murder is okay, as long as you can get enough people to sympathize with you. What strikes me most about Knox's supporters is that they seemingly have no consideration whatsoever for Meredith Kercher and her family. It doesn't seem to bother them that another young woman was brutally murdered. They refuse to see the possibility that Knox could have had any knowledge of this crime whatsoever, let alone a hand in it. And they rallied the American media to the plight of a poor little American girl being victimized by the evil foreign courts and police. The Media threw everything they had into painting Knox as an innocent teenager caught up in a web of abuse and lies, and the Italian courts and police as bumbling idiots and brutish thugs. And they did their job well. Knox walks free, and we, as a society, slip down another notch on the moral scale. And all of my sympathy goes to the family of Meredith Kercher, who just want to know what really happened to their daughter that night, and maybe some kind of justice.