Degeneration

I'm having to deal with customers who call for nuclear attacks on countries that they dislike, for no other reason than some voices (not necessarily sane) dislike those countries and are calling for their nuclear obliteration. I've lost the will to point out how many civilians would die, purely because they are on the wrong place on a map. How many babies will be turned to dust before they learn the concepts of Good or Evil.

How those voices calling for destruction would feel if their "enemies" did the same to their beloveds...

There was a side-by-side comparison of two photos I once saw. The first had Soviet children, reciting an oath; the second had US children, reciting the Oath of Allegiance. The photo pointed out that, as far as a lot of people would see, one photo was of children being indoctrinated, the other of children being patriotic... but that opinions would differ as to which was which.

I can find pity for those indoctrinated from birth, yet annoyance at those calling themselves "free"... But, at the moment, I cannot tell which are which.