Depraved?

 Peter Wehner decries the glorification of Luigi Mangione and the dehumanization of Brian Thompson. 

I get it. Insurance companies do suck, but that cannot be a call to murder, and the bizarre "logic" of "social murder" advanced by Jia Tolentino can be expanded to include "anything I don't like." 

Perhaps I'm reading too much into my own son's support for strikingly anti-Israeli statements and Mangione, but I have to wonder about the basic moral calculus of the online generation. They seem primed for extremist positions, because extreme statements and actions are the online currency. I remember my son lauding the guy who lit himself on fire over Gaza. That guy accomplished exactly nothing. His death was meaningless, an expression of mental illness disguised at sacrifice. 

Or maybe I'm just forgetting what it's like to be young.