The moral relativism displayed on the Mashpee Message is disturbing and enlightening.
The insularity in this area seems – seems – to lead people, especially those who grew up here, to define right and wrong in their own way.
Someone isn’t guilty of a crime if he’s likable. Maybe as in Trump. Certainly as in a bad cop who’s just left the Mashpee PD.
I dropped off a basket of fruit to the police station today, with thanks for getting rid of a bad apple.
How can you have a civilization if a small group of people don’t respect social norms, as defined by our systems of laws?
Darned if I know.