[metmom]

And yet we think we can somehow “appeal to it’s better nature.”

Human beings have no better nature.

The days of appealing to decency are long gone. They left when the Judeo-Christian foundations of this country were undercut.

Without God, there is no better anything. True human nature surfaces and that is what we are seeing here.

[RKBA Democrat]

Thanks for the note and you’re right: when people abandon faith they also abandon the idea that there are consequences beyond the immediate. Investing in the unknown future is replaced by YOLO.