What is wrong with sociaty? I know it may have happened, but I don't remember hearing about stuff like this

Question

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21757239/
when I was a kid, as often as I do now days

Answer 1

If you look at statistics, crime of just about any kind is on a decline and is the lowest it's been in the decades that we have reliable records for (link 1).

The difference that you are perceiving between now and the past is that now stories such as these are called 'news' by papers and they are distributed around the world almost instantaneously. In the past, something so atrocious would be treated as an embarassment and hushed up. What community wants to be known as a place where that kind of thing occurs?

Of course, this has caused a bit of a shift in societal attitude. In being constantly presented with such things, they begin to seem mundane and commonplace instead of the unacceptable freaks that they are. In the past, there was much more of a stigma attached to being associated with such a thing, but nowadays few seem to be even particularly surprised.

Answer 2

sick people out there