Our society is erasing values from people’s lives, and as a result, empathy is becoming increasingly rare, while what should be considered madness is presented as justifiable. A veteran who risked his life to stop a drugged man from attacking subway passengers in New York is being condemned by the Left, labeled a murderer and racist, and was facing calls for his imprisonment. (Fortunately, the jurors on his trial acquitted him on Monday.) Meanwhile, the same left-wing movement exonerates and even defends the murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” wrote former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz in a Bluesky post, referring to Thompson’s murder. Like her, many other leftists have taken to social media not only to exonerate the killer but also to mock Thompson’s tragic fate. These reactions reflect a segment of society that no longer values life and has lost its sense of empathy. These leftists are unmoved by the fact that a man was brutally murdered or that his two children and wife will spend the rest of their lives in deep grief.