Fri Aug 25, 2023 – 11:20 am EDT
(American Thinker) — A thirty-three-year-old British nurse was recently convicted of murdering “seven fragile babies” and attempting to kill at least six others. For her “campaign of child murder,” she has been given a life sentence with no chance of parole.
All of her victims had been born with medical complications and were only a few hours to a few days old. She injected air into their bloodstreams and added poisons to their intravenous feeds. During her murder spree, she consciously targeted the “extremely vulnerable.” Her ordinary appearance combined with her self-image as a “conscientious, hardworking, knowledgeable nurse” provides another stark reminder of the prevalence in this world of what Hannah Arendt called the “banality of evil.”
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Crimes such as these affect me. I feel the same revulsion when I see what remains after the bloody massacres carried out by child soldiers in parts of Africa or by gangs of teenagers on America’s city streets. The carnage is always so reckless and perfunctory – as if such consequential damage has no consequence at all. This soul-destroying idea that life does not matter – that
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