Physician Misconduct. Chapter 2. The Massacre of the Innocents.
There may be no other event that so inflames fury and intense sadness as the concept of innocent people, especially children, being injured or slaughtered. I think this reaction is centered in the primordial brain, because the visceral reaction is so intense. The original Massacre of the Innocents is the Biblical tale of Herod the Great ordering the slaughter of all male children under 2 years of age in the region of Bethlehem around 0 CE. It turns out this is currently cons