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Editorial: The fabric of society is unraveling

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By Alba à‡ela Do not turn on your TV sets and don’t look at your phones. Every glance at the screen will cause one to shiver and squirm: Men who kill women by throwing them naked out the windows, men who strangle children with wire threads and then hang themselves, teenagers who attempt to rape little boys behind school yards, bitter souled people who pour out venom on social media sites after the death of a journalist just because he had a fixed political position, sons who go to the hospitals to strangle their ill fathers with belts. Irresponsible people…

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