The truth about different

I am discovering that people don't really want the truth about most things, they only want the comfortable truth, the facts that support what they believe.

No matter how many facts support it, or how well documented it is, if the emotional impact is not satisfactory, truth is often rejected.

In fact, people seem more apt to accept absolute nonsense than logic much of the time.

We have become a nation of people who love suffering, blood and gore, (for others) while spouting high sounding rhetoric about what is right and wrong.

What makes me think this?  Our extracurricular activities!  It's the drama that pulls us in from one end of the spectrum to the other.  Drama lifts us up, horrifies us, inspires us, entertains us and the more extreme it is, the better it seems to go over.

No wonder our children are confused.  How are they supposed to know what kind of killing is okay, what kind of torture is acceptable, what kind of decision making in the name of some authority is the absolute? 

We love to hate . . . anyone and anything that is DIFFERENT.  And the scariest thing about this is that we are all different to some degree.