A quibble
"The participants in those events clearly could not tell right from wrong. "
They knew (both the looters on the streets and the ones in office), they just don't care, and not just about right or wrong either.
So many people don't care anymore, that, even those of us that still care in the choices of our own actions, lean more and more to the sentiment captured by Mr Flugennock above.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
