the slippery slope

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de Quincey

murder TV

     At least one popular murder TV show never misses a chance to tell us that we ought to have sympathy for serial killers. Very little is left for the victims of these killers, who are usually so disgusting that they are not recognizably human. What could be more perverse?