Keep hitting that compass

The needle that should point true north is loose and out of whack. The latest news frenzy proves that, as they usually do. What the major media consider true, right, good and/or critically important reflects the direction of the culture….or, rather, determines the direction of the culture.

Look where we are now.

Look at the inescapable glut of news and analysis on Atlanta Falcon’s star Michael Vick and the ugly dogfight business. It hasn’t let up, even throughout Monday Night Football last night, since Atlanta was playing. The outrage reflected in the media has grown. They keep re-playing video of the brutality to the dogs, and we hate to see that. It’s senseless violence, horrible and alarming.

And while they show it over and over, and talk about it with moral and public outrage, I keep wondering where the outrage is over the brutality to vulnerable little humans in the womb when they are aborted. Nobody seemed to be willing to state that very obvious paradox.

Except this blog, Wit or Wisdom. The blogger makes a reasonable argument, and asks good questions, like…

how does one side (the law) justify its case against the other side (Vick and all dogfighters)? If I were Vick’s lawyer, I would probably make the argument that Vick’s actions were no worse than hunting. After all, who’s to say? The problem here is that you have no moral standard in this culture to go by. How can you define what is right and wrong in this case? We are forced to conclude that the law is inconsistent, are we not?

Such is the case of society when you have moral relativism as the guiding light. There is no real way to define right and wrong, because no one can agree what right and wrong is.

But those with the loudest voices and access to the power of the media will tell you.

Some bullies are more obvious than others.