Thomas Daugherty and Brian Hooks...Missed Opportunity

DallasBlog.com | Bill DeOre:

“After watching the video of Thomas Daugherty brutally attacking a helpless sleeping man with a baseball bat, I couldn't help but wonder what would bring any human being to stoop this low.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

We live in a culture of violence. Liberals tolerate the destruction of fetuses in the name of choice. Conservatives tolerate the collateral deaths of thousands of innocent civilians in the name of national defense. As a nation, we officially sanction the executions of those we deem to have committed crimes so heinous their perpetrators are unworthy of life. In some cases, our leaders who hold the power of final appeal even mock those who make their last pleas for life. What all these victims have in common is powerlessness. Even the once powerful criminal is shackled and strapped to a table, made helpless, before death is delivered.

Is it any wonder that some young people mimic this behavior, making their own twisted decisions about what life is worthy of survival and what life deserves death? Is it any wonder that the victims are often the helpless homeless? It isn't to me. I don't expect such aberrant behavior among our young people to disappear as long as the culture of violence holds sway over the rest of our society.