I wanted to start Easter (and Greek Easter: for once the calendars agree) morning off on a moral note, and Glenn Logan‘s ringing Comment of the Day on the revolting Axis admiration of murderer Luigi Mangione provides exactly that. Glenn was a prolific blogger himself, has been a regular commenter here from the beginning (2009) and I have recognized him here too seldom, probably because he is economical with his pronouncements.

Yesterday was pretty quiet around these parts with few comments, but, as Spencer Tracy says of the “meat” on Katherine Hepburn’s person in “Pat and Mike,” what there was “is cherce.”

Here is Glenn Logan’s COTD on the post, “What’s Going On Here?” Is This Incident Just A Single Teenage Idiot In Love Or Does It Have Larger Cultural Significance?

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Morally good men do not kill people ambush-style. That seems self-evident, but apparently Taylor Lorenz is unable to separate her leftist desire for universal government-paid health coverage from the idea that the CEO’s of for-profit companies don’t deserve to live. Somehow, the fact that some people don’t get the kind of coverage she thinks they should is so evil (rather than a simple fact of life working within the system that we have) that deadly force is justified.

For sure, our health care system is imperfect as all human systems are, but murder is not the solution to what she perceives as the problem — murder one CEO, and another will arise to take his/her place almost instantly. Anyone who can “understand why” somebody commits cold-blooded murder for a purely ideological reason is morally lost.

The fact that she can’t see that is typical — with the Left, the ends always justifies the means, even when it is ambush-style murder of a person in broad daylight and cold blood. To quote the Exorcist it is, “Evil against evil.” For her to repeatedly praise this vicious killer and even refer to him as a “morally good man” is emblematic of mental illness, even sociopathy.

I fear for her. She is the kind of person who can rationalize literally anything, and such people are always potentially dangerous to society.