Are We All Born With a Moral Compass

Are we all born with that feeling in the pit of our stomach that something is wrong when we see it, or are we born with a blank filter that gets filled as we experience life, coaches, and mentors? Aren’t we all sickened when we see someone mistreat a dog, or did our parents have to tell us that this was something to file under angry personality? Did someone have to say to us that child pornography was wrong, or was the combination of the two words enough to tell us to stay away? Is our moral compass a product of nature or nurture?

I saw a video the other day showing a classroom full of elementary students. They held large, handmade signs on sticks as they walked around the classroom in rhythm. They were chanting, “We want ICE out now,” under the enthusiastic coaching of their teacher, Miss Karen (not her real name). This obvious scene of childhood indoctrination sickened me immediately, but are there folks out there who were excited to witness this scene, and they were proud of the entire exercise?

When I see a young man shot dead by an ICE agent, do I see a fine upstanding pillar of society who, as a nurse, wanted nothing more than to help humanity? Or, on further evidence, do I see a confused individual who spends his free time harassing law enforcement officers who are trying to rid his neighborhood of dangerous illegal migrants, and as one of his final acts, kicks the ICE agent’s car and breaks a taillight? He wasn’t at the protests, with a medical bag ready to provide aid as needed. He was packing a pistol at a “supposed peaceful” protest. Did he deserve to die? I am not saying that, just as I am saying it is wrong to condemn the officer who shot him until all the facts are in.

When I see a woman shot dead by an ICE agent after the car she was driving hit the officer, do I see her as a fine woman and mother of three who was in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or, do I learn that she had been at the scene for two days with her lesbian wife, driving her car into confrontations between law officers and protesters, verbally abusing the officers? Do we learn that this woman has two teenage children, who are in the custody of their father, and a six-year-old whose father is dead? Do we see in the videos that she is refusing to exit her car after being told to do so by the agents, and that her lover cheered her on as she put the car in gear and struck the officer with her vehicle? Does all of that information warrant an investigation? Absolutely, but not a public condemnation of the officer or an elevation to sainthood for the victim.

And what are we to think of the group of protesters, accompanied by podcaster and former CNN host Don Lemon, who stormed a church in St Paul, disrupting the service, because they had heard that the Pastor was a member of ICE? Were these protesters justified because they spoke for their fellow neighbors and had a right under the 1st amendment to protest, or were they violating the right of the worshippers to assemble in a church, and traumatizing them by yelling at them, while the worshippers continued to pray for the group of protesters? Don Lemon, playing the role of journalist, continued to confront the Pastor. Lemon would later refer to these worshippers as privileged, white supremacists who were practicing a bizarre form of religion.

I have a difficult time seeing any of these situations as normal. I do not understand the media’s role in automatically elevating the position of any of these “victims” before obtaining the facts, or why politicians on the Left are so quick to jump to the defense of anyone who confronts federal officers and does not live to tell about it. Blame it on the great divide in this country or on networks needing to fill the air with 24/7 news. Blame it on the media for supporting the Left first and their version of the facts second, and blame politicians who are being enriched by their relationship with these radical protesters and who are willing to sacrifice the good of the country for the good of their net worth. Shame on this last group, for they are the lowest of lows.