It's really the third one that keeps me up at night the absolute most. This level of inhuman cruelty is institutionalized in American culture so completely that *even in a report on human rights violations*, journalists still bake in the "and they didn't even deserve it" meme.

That is how this happened. That is how, if left unchecked, this will happen again. That is the core germ of the idea that is used to justify all manner of cruelties — the truly vile idea that some humans deserve it.