Fri, 04 Feb 2005

A Moral Collapse

Some folks (OK, a lot of folks) make the claim that this nation is in a state of "moral collapse" - that we're drifiting without ethical values towards some abyss or another. Ususally, these folks demand we adopt a religion (always their religion, incidentially) to cure this problem.

I have a simpler solution:

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

--Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II

Two Durango teens thought they'd surprise neighbors with nighttime deliveries of home-baked treats. But one woman was so terrified, she sued and has won. But Wanita Renea Young, 49, was so unnerved by the knocks at her door at 10:30 p.m. that she called sheriffs and then sought emergency room care for an anxiety attack. The teenage cookie-leavers, Taylor Ostergaard and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, wrote her letters of apology, but she sued anyway and won $900.

(link) [Denver Post]

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