The removal of dead babies' organs is terrible, but put it in perspective. The Guardian Emotional decadence is a danger in western societies with too little to worry about.
Emotional decadence is when heart strings are tugged for frivolous or inappropriate causes.
This Monday's Panorama was a breath-taking example. It sounded like another Bristol heart doctors story - a genuinely dreadful case of children needlessly dying through negligence and ignorance. No, all this righteous indignation was over hearts and lungs wrongly stored after post mortems. No tragedy can be worse than the loss of a child. Many Liverpool parents of dead children are angry and deeply distraught after the discovery that some 2,500 organs were kept without permission by a questionable former university pathologist who left five years ago.