The Attack and Burning of Michael Brewer

The attack and burning of 15 yr old Michael Brewer has my head spinning. Beside the heinous act itself I can't help but wonder if anyone is connecting the dots. We've now raised and trained 2 or 3 generations under the guiding light of an ideology that says there are no absolutes in life. Under the banner of progressive enlightenment, nothing can be absolutely right or wrong because everything is relative. There is no absolute truth and so there can be no definite foundations for morality, a structure that guides a society seeking to be civil, or support culturals that add to the benefit of other healthy cultural expressions. Life under this ideology can be nothing but random, a relative "free-for-all". If it is true - that there are absolutely no absolutes (say that out loud 4 times), how do we as a civil society hold these 5 teenager accountable for what they did? What did they do wrong if everything is relative? What if they just hold a different view of fun than you do or that life to them holds a lesser value? Can they be called criminals, and if so by whose definition?

Is anyone connecting the dots? How absolutely hypocritical to absolutely insist that absolute do not exist, that every person is free to think and act according to his or her current set of standards, then to haul others to court for violating someone else "rights". If everything is relative - no one has rights!

A society that denies the existence of absolutes must live in the presence of absolutes while denying they are there. Example, the physical sciences hang-on the reality of certain known absolutes. NASA could not get a crew to space (and back again) while denying the existence of absolutes laws. To embrace the existence of absolutes in one area while blindly denying them in others can be nothing else but a lifestyle that says, "I do not care if my choices are harmful to others. I have a right to think and act as I choose." Odd though isn't it, that when the relative choices of others violates a right we claim to have, we do not hesitate to scream "Unfair!" and grab a lawyer to defend our rights.

Is anyone connecting the dots? We are now reaping a crop from seeds sown decades ago. Anyone who has ever planted anything knows that a crop takes time to come up and that a single seed will evidually yield a hand full of fruit, and that fruit will bear seeds that will produce more of the same.

Gary