Grave And Deadly Errors

People are so quick to rise up and jump on young people who commit hateful deeds. We say they should know better. They should realize how their actions are going to affect other people, but where do these people learn their values?

In way too many places, it is okay to make fun of, or judge people because of their size, shape, sexual preferences, talents, or lack there of. As long as it is done in private, at home, or in clubs, or for the amusement of others we seem to condone it. Supposedly it does no real harm in private, but is this true?

I don't think so. I think the sins of the fathers (and mothers) are still being visited on their children who go out into the world trying to emulate those they admire, or at least those who taught them right from wrong. Lack of experience is going to allow leaks. The hatred and bigotry will seep out of these children just as surely as the rancid grease leaks out of those bins behind restaurants of even the best sort.

The purported outrage of a society that still barely accepts people who vary from the old American "norm" is often a cover up for the rage they feel when they are inadvertently outed by the very children they taught these things to.

When anyone's child dies because of who he is, it is a tragedy and it is a tragedy that is generally linked to generations of people who believe they and their family are righteous, upright people whose children will never be in that position.

As long as people continue to spout things that have no real basis in truth, or science, we are bound to make grave and deadly errors. We are all accountable.