Deportation of decency

Legality doesn't always equate to morality. At some point I believed that within every human being there was an innate sense of right and wrong. That there was a moral compass of sorts that would set an alarm off within us telling us when something was simply too abhorrent to ignore without speaking out or acting. Unfortunately, as I've grown up, I've come to realize that this isn't the case with everyone. Over this week, I was first introduced to a video of a little girl, completely distraught with grief over her father being detained in the process of the ongoing ICE raids. She was bawling her eyes out over the fact that her dad had been taken away from her. She was so confused, so hurt, just in an unimaginable amount of pain over what had happened and the whole thing was unbearably stomach churning to watch. After the video of her begging, pleading for her dad back had concluded, I made the unfortunate mistake of looking into the comment section and was greeted with something quite powerful. While there were many individuals expressing the same heartache that I felt, I was astonished by the number of people that were able to watch the same thing I did and just feel nothing. They were cold, callous, and expressed no sympathy whatsoever for this travesty as they calmly typed in many comments to the effect of "well her parents shouldn't have come here illegally". As much as it was shocking, it was equally telling. What I gathered from all of that unfeeling disregard was that not everyone sees the world in the way most do. They don't look at things through their own lens of morality because they simply don't have one and use whatever the law happens to be as a substitute. I'm not just talking about online comments either, I'm talking about things I've heard coming out of peoples mouths face to face as they're interacting with others in their day to day lives. You might say it's a bit extreme to essentially call a vast swath of people morally dead inside, but I honestly don't have any other explanation for these antisocial sentiments that seem to be more and more prevalent as each day ticks on by. So many people seem to be having their sensibilities dulled to horrors and I believe it's doing some serious damage to society. I hear so much talk about the moral degradation of society and I believe that those talking about that are right about one thing; there is decay going on, but it's not coming from where they're saying. I've never heard a gay person talk with such disdain and irreverence to fellow human beings, I've never heard a trans person spew such reviling apathy, and I've certainly never witnessed anyone of a minor religion observe suffering and simply shrug. But I've seen far too much of that coming from those that have always touted themselves as the beacon and keepers of supposed moral purity. So called Christians, so called followers of Jesus, protectors of what they see as everything morally upright and socially conservative are the only ones that seem to be turning a blind eye to real suffering in the world. What happened to make things this way? What went wrong? When did so many people become so cold and unfeeling? How can you just watch a little girl go through such unbearable suffering and just shrug it off? I don't have the answers to all this, but I truly hope with every fiber of my existence that this nightmarish trend turns around. Another thing, that little girl is far from the only instance of utter anguish, it's just one that ended up on camera for the world to see. I shudder to think about the countless tragedies that few will ever know about that have also come about due to this disturbing wave of apathy towards human pain. (profanity incoming) Something else desperately needs to be said; I don't give a flying fuck what the law says, this bullshit isn't ok. Suffering isn't ok. This dissociation from morality and basic decency IS NOT OK. Wake the ever loving fuck up and rediscover what made you human at some point before you're too far gone to help. This isn't just about the deportations either, it's about a vast variety of things. It's about white supremacy (which the president really seems to be pussyfooting around about focusing in on) it's about the violence (which his rhetoric certainly hasn't helped with) it's about the shootings (which the NRA doesn't see as something worth taking action on) but most of all, throughout all of this insanity, it's about the god damn attitude from everyone. It's about the ever growing sense of "well I guess this is just the way things are now" that I see as most unforgivable. I'll finish by leaving you with a quote you've most likely heard of by Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke; "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing."