Yeah, McGrath, we have certainly desensitized and compartmentalized society to not only killing but violence as a whole. It's not just a problem of our government taking a hypocritical stand on the santity of life but we also have conservative so called Christains who never got to the new testiment who think that capital punishment is just fine with them. Now, you take it one step further and you have kids playing video games that depict very violent acts and are rewarded in these games for comitting these acts. And you have movies that depict very graphic violent acts by not only the bad guys but by the good guys. It's no wonder that there are so many violent folks. And its no surprise that so many folks hold such anti-human views. "Strap 'em in. I'll pull thswitch myself." Well, I'm not how we can redirect our society but its way off course in this ever shrinking, tribalized, globalized world... Peace. Bobert