Andrew Trench asks: Do we live in a post-morality world?

SHOOT: It certainly seems so at times. My jail experience earlier this year, and the false arrest weeks prior, gave me a strong sense that morality and even justice is a myth. It depends on who has power and a certain kind of information. It's less about reality - and that is scary. I think it's symptomatic of a fundamental disconnect with ourselves and reality. If you can't see reality you can't see the consequences of your own actions, and you lack empathy with others that are the recipient/s of your actions.
Question is, what will it take to moralise a demoralised and dehumanised population? And is this even possible at this point?

clipped from blogs.dispatch.co.za A month ago a 22-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl conceived by a man who raped her. This week she was raped again, this time by two men. Not even an hour after that, a third man she thought was a Good Samaritan who had come to help her, raped her again. The horror is unimaginable. As this poor woman says an interview with my newspaper: “Men are dangerous and to me they are creatures who are here to destroy women”. I felt ashamed to be a man when I read this story. It was a hard story to lead the newspaper with. The crime is grotesque, the inhumanity chilling. And if that was not enough later we are confronted with “Girl’s headless body found“, a story about the discovery of a missing teenagers headless corpse at a scene near King William’s Town where a young woman was brutally raped and stabbed more than 30 times last year, a story which at the time lead my newspaper. the girl had been raped before being killed and mutilated. It would have been surprising if she was not.