THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Making Murder Respectable
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Takimag Making Murder Respectable The language of the police robs crime and punishment of morality. TakiMag (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) When the news of the terrible killing of eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana, first broke, I was forcibly struck by the language used by the police spokesman to describe what had happened (or, rather, what had been done) there. Of course, this was a minor consideration by comparison with the horror of the events themselves, but nevertheless it was of some interest, at least to me. After all, the way in which we use language is not an insignificant indicator of…Open