A two year old boy cries "Please, daddy" as his father tortures and beats him to death.
A group of young "men" terrorise and torture a disabled woman.
In some countries, people believe that the way to get rid of AIDS is to have sex with virgins.
A junkie comes in and, after frustrating me with my trying to find out what she actually wants and my walking away, tells me that I should be nice and happy.
Sometimes it doesn't take much to make you conclude that perhaps the species needs to be thinned out a bit.
Humans have no real threats other than ourselves. Our ingenuity has allowed us to get rid of most of the animals that threaten us. Our ingenuity and our beliefs have done so - no-one has proved that rhino horn or tiger penis does what "traditional" medicine claims, yet plenty of rhinos and tigers are killed where Viagra would be better.
The only predators humans have are ourselves... and you would have thought that, by now, we'd have worked out how to cooperate. But, no...
There was a psychological experiment done many years back, where the population of a large cage of rats was allowed to grow. The rats had all the food and water they required, yet the colony broke down as the stress of such a high population in a confined space drove them insane. Perhaps that's what's happening to people...
Things are quiet at the moment, "investigations" seem to have dwindled. In world news, it is the quiet before the storm - you feel as if things cannot build much more before they overflow, but keep building they do.
Others have noticed this, although they tend to operate more on a prophecy level than on taking note of what's happening... I write that and I wonder - what's the difference?