Our accepted codified culture is getting real dodgy

Somedays I wish more people were actually familiar with the catechism of the catholic church. Stand where you will on contraception and gay marriage, that document's got a lot of good things in there too.

There is a huge watering down of morals and people are engaging in their own reasoning about what they think is moral. I'm appaled by what's out in print these days:

So it's no longer that killing is always wrong, it's not even that killing that is always wrong unless absolutely necessary in very exceptional circumstances, it's not even that you can't kill without a due process of law, but apparently the new moral standard is that people deserve some privacy in death.

Forget all life is sacred; forget that abortion should be safe, legal and rare; forget abortion for medical reasons; now you can just let a twin pregnancy develop long enough for a doctor to reduce it to a singleton pregnancy (by aiming a needle into the chest of a 14 weeks old viable fetus) because you only want one kid.

It's no longer that all people are of equal and infinite value. It's not even that you should try in public to pay lip service to the belief that people are of equal value. In the new DIY moral, life has a pecking order and you should spend your formative years fighting your way up its ranks.

Seriously, my son is going to know that little black book like the back of his hand by the time he is twelve.