While taking a short break from work, I decided to check some of the latest headlines on the news. There has been another killing in a school. Why does this keep happening? What is possessing people to do things like this? We make so much of terrorists abroad, but we seem to have quite a few in our own country. For a few weeks you couldn't bring shampoo on the airplane, but somehow guns are getting into our schools. Why? Are we at such a sad and frightening time in our society where we need to put metal detectors and armed guards at the doors of our schools just to keep our kids safe?
Sometimes when I tell people that I studied Classics, a few people turn up their noses and complain that the ancient Greek and Roman societies were too violent and immoral. Take a look at our society! When you look at it, are we really all that different? We still have violence in our streets, and we are still fighting wars. One huge difference between now and then is that in ancient times, the political leaders who voted to go to war would actually go to war with the troops. The were not preaching while they sat in big leather chairs. Instead, many of them were fighting. But that is another story.
Either way, what is the world coming to?
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