It’s hardly an ‘elephant’ in the room

A different sort of creature I should have thought.

That river in Egypt is deep and wide.  There’s absolutely no point trying to tell those hardwired against or show evidence after evidence after evidence … they just don’t want to know, as Laura Perrins explains:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/poor-little-olivia-and-the-death-of-justice/

I WAS visiting family in Ireland when I heard that in England they had started shooting nine-year-olds getting ready for bed. Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot as her mother stood in front of her by a masked gunman who had barged into the family’s home in pursuit of his intended target. 

Neither Olivia nor her mother, Cheryl, who was also hit, knew the men.

This killing is the very definition of evil. That a nine-year-old child cannot even be safe in her own home at bedtime is a scandal; it is monstrous, it is wicked. It is a stone-cold attack on Olivia, her family, the law-abiding community in Liverpool and the law-abiding people of this country in general. 

But talk to me about those tax cuts again, Liz Truss. 

This outrage, this attack on a most precious and innocent child has been a long time coming. My view is simple: evil exists. I feel I have an advantage knowing this, as there are many people out there that think there is no such thing as evil, or darkness or the devil himself, and therefore have no idea how to fight them. 

But there is no question that evil exists; the question for a civilised society is how do we protect citizens from this evil. Currently the answer is: not very well at all. 

Sometimes it’s possible to get the three wise monkeys to at least look and begrudgingly concede “weeellllll, there’s something there”, a bit like Omar the bigamist saying about 911 “some people did some things”.

One of the key sticking points after watching Biden’s speech or a Taylor Swift video or Black Sabbath is that to concede evil is the step before conceding something else … so I’ll stop here.