The bad idea that there's your truth and my truth makes victims of us all.

With the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Recently, police in Hampshire, England, arrested a man for an unusual crime,

not vandalism, not theft, not murder, but according to the arresting officer,

because, quote, someone has been caused anxiety based on your social media post.

Setting aside the dubious and dangerous logic

of involving the state in social media spats, appealing to emotion as a matter of justice is a really

bad idea. So I no longer have to prove that wrong has been done, only that I feel that a wrong

has been done? All that's left once a culture has rejected the idea of right and wrong is to

grope for some moral foundation and nebulous ideas like anxiety or offense. Everyone's

inner voice becomes an unassailable authority, and the loudest voice ends up winning. Common

sense tells us this is a disaster in the making, but without the common sense that there

is common truth,

there won't be the possibility of common justice.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.