Is it "Worth IT"?

The hypothetical individual Fred is claiming that it is "worth it" to kill grandma because the inheritance she's going to leave him is more than a million dollars. 
 
Dick Cheney et al, most of the US Corporate media and a good part of the American population are in the same position as our hypothetical "Fred". 
 
Maybe there is no god, no heaven or hell - I personally think not - but there is certainly no meaningful life on this earth without the thing that we call morality and the humanity it brings to our lives. 
 
The fact that this has been lost by all those mentioned above was evident long before the election of GWB. Their having reached the conclusion that torture is "worth it" is only symptom, not cause. 
 
Ultimately it is the loss of humanity that is at the root of the collapsing US economy and it will be the thing that makes the US a living hell when the collapse is fully emerged.

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