Ethics and morality and other Monday rants

Well, a big pet peeve of mine is people who preach "morality" but are highly unethical. I am getting sick and tired of people who excuse the lack of ethics in people just because they happen to share the same sick idealogy (yeah I am talking about Republicans, I am unabashedly biased I know). Take the Guantanamo Bay prisoner abuse scandal, how can people actually excuse this sort of thing with the arguement: well, they are enemy combatants, and probably did much worse to other people, so we can abuse them. It makes my skin crawl to hear people try to justify unethical (and immoral) actions simply because "they did it too." Aargh! While it is disgusting to me that people are allowed to torture other people, and seemingly get away with with, it is equally disturbing that there are people who are TAUGHT to torture people, as well as given orders to do so, or allowed to do so. I can only presume that these practices have a hugely adverse effect on those who are committing the torturous acts as well. I see it as a stripping on one's humanity, bit by bit, act by act. Yet, we have "lawmakers" who are mad that people are mad about this! What the fuck! That is insane! Crazy making. Where are we headed as a society? Screw all the "morality" talk, the endless rants about the so-called negative effects of gay marriage, single parents, divorce, etc., what about our loss of common decency: kindness, mercy, compassion, love. And why is the prophetic voice, speaking out against injustice and hate, being drowned out by the likes of FOX News and the GOP. Speak out people! Be a pain in the ass to the powers that be!