How Is It Possible That So Many of Us Forgot the Very Basics of Decency That We Learned as Children?

In addition to his brilliance in matters of math and science, my friend and colleague Glenn Doty has a huge heart.  The pic here is from his Facebook page.

It’s funny; when I see people do horrible things, like building and selling 11 million cars that are designed to cheat on emissions requirements and thus over-pollute the world’s air (Volkswagen), or conspiring to hide the truth about climate change for 37 years, until it’s possibly too late to address the issue effectively (ExxonMobil), I often ask, “Didn’t you learn about that in Sunday School when you were a little kid?”