The Crumbling Of Our Moral Infrastructure Can Be Deadly

There has been much concern, rightly expressed, about the rusting of bridges around the country, and the crumbling and corrosion of other parts of the physical infrastructure. But the crumbling of the moral infrastructure is no less deadly.…But if everyone takes the path of least resistance — if politicians pander to particular constituencies and judges give only wrist slaps to particular groups or mobs that are currently in vogue, and educators indoctrinate their students with “nonjudgmental” attitudes — then the moral infrastructure corrodes and crumbles.The moral infrastructure is one of the intangibles, without which the tangibles don’t work. Like the physical infrastructure, its neglect in the short run invites disaster in the long run.