Kos does the 2016 Post-Mortem exactly wrong.

[JCanete]

63. What they do affects us and vice versa. It seems like we have a stake in helping people to look at

the world through a different lens.

But where do you think common decency comes from anyway? Where do you think a sense of what is good and right and wrong comes from? Are you born with it? Does God imbue you with it, or as the case may be, not?

I'm sorry but it just isn't the case that morality is a universal quality. It is about cultural norms and cultural consciousness. You only need to look at different cultures today, or the historical evolution of morals over time to know this. You can blame people for being people, set yourself apart as better and morally superior, but the truth is you had entirely different experiences and influences that shaped your consciousness, yet you want to hold other people to your standards, and let them reap the whirlwind for their mistakes.

That you would actually look at swaths of people that are incarcerated because they have been cut out of the American dream and have turned to crime, often non-violent, as people deserving what they get, astonishes me here in DU.

When you start to perceive people as bad or deficient in some way, you obfuscate the actual forces that are driving our culture in the wrong direction, and you make it harder to see and address those forces in favor of feeding some narrative need to pin all our problems on some other...some villain...

I say that whole fixation is part of the problem, and if we're going to do it on both sides, then nobody is leading the way.