“It’s not that bad.”

That phrase, “It’s not that bad,” more than simply being the repeated insistence of a woman who recently “tweeted” her abortion, could really be the mantra of a culture that has become absolutely numb to its deep-rooted tradition of killing human persons. We americans have become simply too good at stopping the pain that comes from killing each other, whether we do it through orally-administered abortion, by pounding it into “our” soldiers that their victims are not human, by talking ourselves into believing that certain practices “aren’t really torture.”

Abortion? “Not that bad.”
Waterboarding? “Not that bad.”
Collateral damage? “Not that bad.”
Profit-centered health care system? “Not that bad.”
Capitalism? “Not that bad.”

When was the last time you said “It’s not that bad”?