Interesting email from a reader:

Mr. Goldbert, before I retired as a social worker I swam upstream against an entrenched idea that with enough money and caseworkers we could make every single person as sweet and honest as pie. Nothing could be further from the truth. I met people who deliberately gave drugs to mothers to get their hands on the children, sold children for gas money, and molested everything they could get their hands on. When you looked into their backgrounds there was nothing there to make these people monsters. You have only to look at the terror young men endured in Sudan, then have them come here and become wonderful citizens to realize that. It takes something more than violence to make a monster. Sometimes people just have to accept that as there are people born without limbs, or other body parts, so there are those born without any guilt or the ability to acquire it. They are monsters because they prey on others. This is one reason I am a conservative. I think that idealism is great if tempered with reality. People on the far left just think love(and high taxes) will cure all. Lots of people loved Ted Bundy. If Michael Jackson’s father is such a mean person how is it that Michael is the only family member accused of being a child molester. The other Jacksons have money. It can’t just be that. I have no idea if he has done what he is accused of and only know that I would NEVER let any child of mine be alone with a stranger no matter how sweet he acted or how much fame or money he has. I really do not understand human nature. I still can’t get over the people who cheered OJ during the chase thru Los Angeles. Fame does strange things to people. They believe their idols are gods. They may just be good at hiding what they really are. Scary.