I am not sure where we are... but sometimes I am reminded of the many people I have met who assured me that it was "the fear of God" that kept them on the right path.

"So, absent the fear of God, you would just steal, plunder, cheat and kill?" I would ask.

"Probably," they replied.

That's not a religious comment... but a commentary on the fact that a great many people (it seems) evidently live with only a whisker separating them from savage barbarian behavior... and THAT scares me... because it also feels like that "root" part of me was bred out of me many generations ago.