The Tragedy of Death Becoming Society's Entertainment

My daughter sent me a text from school today telling me about a student who has repeatedly told her not to talk about God is commenting that the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk didn't matter. Not because of who he was as a man, but because of what he stood for.

Let that sink in: teenagers, sitting in classrooms where they are supposed to be preparing for their futures, have already absorbed the idea that a human being’s worth can be erased if his convictions

don’t line up with theirs. That’s not just immaturity. That is the product of a culture that has been systematically trained to be desensitized.

Entertainment Was Never Just Entertainment

This moment with my daughter isn’t an isolated one, it’s the harvest of decades of conditioning. Hollywood, movies, music, and video games have long sold us the lie that violence is harmless when wrapped in entertainment.

For years, humanity has laughed while blood splatters across a movie screen, cheered when “the bad guy” gets blown apart in a video game, clapped when explosions tear down buildings, cities, and people as though it’s all just a spectacle. Death became exciting. Destruction became thrilling. Violence became normal.

And don’t mistake it, this didn’t happen by accident. Media has been one of the strongest tools to dull the human conscience. What once would have shocked the soul—murder, gore, brutality—has been normalized until we barely flinch. A child who grows up watching violence as entertainment will eventually learn to see violence as just another option. A society that consumes bloodshed on screens for fun will soon view real-life death with the same casual detachment.

So when a public figure dies, and students dismiss it with, “His life didn’t matter,” it’s no surprise.

They’ve been trained to think that way. Culture has told them life is disposable, and ideology decides value.

Labels and the Misuse of Psychology

Here’s where my frustration deepens. I didn’t enter psychology to create excuses for sin or to hand out labels that let people escape responsibility. But that is exactly how psychology has been twisted in our time.

We use diagnoses as shields. We use terms like “trauma,” “personality disorder,” or “mental health crisis” as ways to rationalize destructive choices. And while understanding the human mind matters, let’s be clear: psychology was never meant to become a tool for erasing accountability. Labels were never intended to justify harm. Psychology is not a tool for declaring who deserves to live or die. It’s meant to help us understand the human mind, not strip away accountability or sanctify violence.

When we let people believe that their pain or their diagnosis gives them the right to destroy, we are enabling evil, not treating it. Psychology should point people toward responsibility, healing, and restoration, not give them language to sanitize sin.

So when students casually dismiss Charlie Kirk’s death, they’re not just parroting what they’ve heard in entertainment or social media. They’re absorbing a broader cultural message: “People are products of their environment. If you don’t like what they believe, you don’t have to value them.” That is psychology without morality. That is science stripped of truth.

Schools as Echo Chambers

The most chilling part is that this desensitization is no longer confined to Hollywood or Netflix queues. It has seeped into schools. Classrooms have become echo chambers where the worth of a life is debated based on ideology.

My daughter didn’t just stumble upon this online. She heard it face-to-face, from peers. The fact that kids in their teens are speaking this way should alarm us. This is no longer about adults disagreeing with adults—it’s about an entire generation being discipled by screens, platforms, and narratives that treat death as a punchline and life as negotiable.

And when that kind of thinking becomes normal in adolescence, what will it look like when those students are running companies, passing laws, or leading families?

Life Has Value—Period

Let’s make this clear: you can disagree with a man’s views. You can criticize his words. You can reject his political stance. But you cannot erase the value of his life.

Life has worth—not because of politics, not because of culture, not because of approval. Life has worth because it is given by God. Once society allows the logic that “some lives don’t matter,” it has already started down the path of collapse. History has shown us this again and again.

The issue isn’t empathy. Empathy is a buzzword that has become a way of making people feel good without holding them to truth. What we need is not “empathy,” but conviction. We need to anchor back to morality, to truth, to an unshakable standard that says: Life matters, period.

A Wake-Up Call

We have to stop pretending entertainment is neutral. It has been training generations to see violence as acceptable. We have to stop letting psychology be twisted into an excuse for evil. We have to stop raising children in schools where ideology decides who deserves to live.

This is a wake-up call. A society that celebrates death is a society headed for destruction. A generation that shrugs at a man’s life being taken because of his convictions is a generation already dangerously close to losing its soul.

Our task, as parents, teachers, leaders, and believers, is simple but urgent: Speak the truth. Refuse the conditioning. Teach that every life carries weight. Model what it looks like to stand firm in conviction without dehumanizing those you disagree with.

Because once “his life doesn’t matter” becomes a justification, nothing will remain sacred. And once nothing is sacred, everything is up for destruction.