One might reasonably ask this question of the recent events listed below: What do they have in common?

The deaths of four young women, college athletes, by an out-of-control tractor-trailer rig in Oklahoma.

The death of a gifted young NASCAR driver who, enraged, leapt out of his disabled race car and stormed into the path of another speeding race car.

The physical abuse of his son by a world class athlete.

The shooting death of a young black man after he robbed a convenience store and attacked a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri

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