And pithily sarcastic columnists can hardly strive to dent this well established thickheadedness. And it could even be argued that these super-dense moralists are really doing what's best for me anyway. And anyway, it's not like I'm spending a lot of time listening to the overly buoyant Briteny Spears or watching reruns of Columbo. More cruel still is the anti-trust case against Microsoft. Nothing could be more unjust than the desire to penalize this goliath monopoly for righteously squashing competitors.
Cruelty is in evidence in professional sports as well.
Tiger Woods was cruelly denied yet another victory when some other guy unexpectedly played a lot better then he did. There are also the more serious instances of cruelty with the sports heroes who will only accept millions upon billions of dollars for chasing little balls around. Spread the wealth, I say. At times it seems a plague of troglodytes has taken over our society and is ripping it asunder from whatever it was previously attached to. Cruelty is proliferating faster than belly button rings and butterfly tattoos.