[Daphne – I remember it. I still think the fatal injustice of it all is appalling.]

It is indeed. You couldn’t have put it more eloquently in that column. The irony was screaming out in that church. Unfortunately, life does not always deal a “happily-ever-after” ending to those who deserve it.

Such is life.

[Daphne – I remember it. I still think the fatal injustice of it all is appalling.]

It was a poignant portrayal of life really. Do people really get what they deserve? Does life hand out gifts and benevolence justly?

I have never seen this film and I’ll surely try to find it. However, it really portrays life and how human frailty falls prey to other people’s aims really.

It only takes a little praise and coaxing and a weak character, and an unloved person yields under the light pressure almost instantly. The reality is that human strength and correctness would never resort to these tactics to get people to do their will.

Indeed, strong and correct individuals would, in all probability, be totally uninterested in having people doing their will.

Unfortunately, as I was reflecting yesterday, our society is bearing the brunt of the amorality which is sweeping down on us all. The financial crisis really is nothing more than the by-product of unbridled greed and greed, which, I believe, is a natural base and primitive inclination in most of us if not all, spreads in a person’s psyche like wildfire should it be left unchecked.

One can be enslaved by it. Amorality does nothing to check greed, rather it encourages it, it cultivates it to the point that it becomes all-consuming.

However, the financial crisis is not the only by-product of our amoral society. So many others are and certainly the behaviour of the so-called politicians, the three “Muscateers”, shows that they have been totally taken over by the amorality which is destroying our society.

Yes, it is the sheer amorality which reigns in these men’s psyche and which “regulates” their behaviour which made them vote against and abstain so light-heartedly ruining a man’s career (albeit, I guess for RCC this will not be a problem) and, above all, the nation’s top person for that particular post.

You have written about amorality elsewhere and I cannot agree more. Amorality is the disease of this decade, if not this century and yes, we are paying the price.

I am even more concerned at the way this amorality is manifesting itself amongst the cabinet-members-in-waiting. We have JM who claims that he wants to be the youngest PM in Maltese history (that now seems to have been debunked), we have George Vella who says “ghamilna l-mozzjoni meta qablilna” and we have all others, who were immoral back in the Golden Years and who are already, therefore, (presumbaly, though I am no one to judge) impervious to the stings of pain inflicted by a healthy conscience, and who seem to be more than ever ready now to ride on the wave of amorality as long as it serves their purposes.

As you say, Daphne, life isn’t fair. It never was, never will be. it would seem life will become even more unfair now that amorality is the “moral code” of some powerful men among us. Above all, irrespective of whether people deserve this, that and the other, amorality surely promotes political promiscuity and infidelity at the expense of people getting what they really deserve and, ultimately, at the expense of the People.