To the extent that the agents of society publish/broadcast the identities of violators and their atrocious acts, society becomes even more complicit in those acts, albeit passively, through abdication of its power and authority to honour life and dignity in every exercise and at every level.

When its governing bodies do not govern intelligently and with an accurate moral compass, thinking that freedom has a higher value than or is independent of responsibility, healthy and sane boundaries are inevitably tested and, at times, exceeded.

Without a course correction sufficient to reinstate the boundaries at the now weakened or broken sections, the testing will continue, inflaming the populations dependent on good government for safety and well-being until, one day, an eruption will occur …

… at which point the governing body will immediately announce, through the same media, its revulsion of what has just “happened”, express deep sympathy for the victims and their families …

… and affirm or reaffirm their “moral” stand against such unacceptable behavior.

That this article has rendered such little commentary in the more than two years since it was published is testament to how many of us (the healthy and the unhealthy, the well and the ill) are asleep at the wheel, likely rendered unresponsive from exhaustion or distraction or medication.

I doubt Mr Bandura’s writing has ever met with such silence in all the decades of his professional career.

Thank you, sir, for taking the time to write.