Totally agree, Harry 904.  In fact I was thinking how we came to this place, and since the "golden rule" has been done away with in education and in culture, we are now seeing the result of people who have grown up thinking that whatever they want is just fine and if somebody doesn't listen, just scream, yell and hit them until you get your way!  Sounds like the toddler whose parent asks his/her opinions about everything and then does what toddler says!  

One of the realities I learned as an English major is that humankind is not very "nice" left to his/her own devices and without any sense of morality (which is learned through religious studies, generally).  

However, it is through these episodes in history of learning about the "not very nice" people that we also learn to be different and hopefully better.  People learn from their mistakes not from what they already do correctly.  That is why we need to preserve history just as it occurred, so that we continue to learn from it!