So we’re seeing play out yet another example of “religion is thought to make people better but guess what IT DOESN’T (necessarily).”

The entitled young male shits who bullied Nathan Phillips are all students at a Catholic boys’ school, so that doesn’t speak very well for how Catholic boys’ schools educate their boys, does it. Teaching basic decency isn’t really the role of schools, and probably shouldn’t be, but at the same time, schools by their nature collect children together into a small space for hours every day, so in that sense teaching / enforcing basic decency is their responsibility. They have a responsibility to see to it that the students don’t brutalize each other, which means they have a … Read the rest