A mother who killed her three children. A boy convicted of murder. A government leaflet. All of the above robbed victims of justice, and criminals of agency. Not to the dead. To the accused. Augustine called virtue "the order of love." Aquinas said we are not called to love everyone identically, and that treating all claims on us as equal is not a higher love but a disordered one. This episode traces what happens to compassion when that order is removed: Lindsay Clancy's trial in Duxbury, the Karmelo Anthony verdict in Frisco, and the Home Office booklet published in London this week. Every figure on screen is sourced and every source is below. Where the record contradicted what was widely reported, we went with the record and said so. CHAPTERS 00:00 The death of responsibility 03:20 Ordered love: Augustine, Aquinas, Lewis 10:20 Case one — Duxbury, Massachusetts 30:20 Case two — Frisco, Texas 46:20 Case three — London 59:20 Where this came from 63:20 Synthesis 66:20 The final question A note on the SSRI segment: we are not against these medications. As long as necessary, as short as possible. The concern is a system that reaches for a prescription with no accompanying design to address what is underneath. Bibliography Primary texts Augustine, City of God, Book XV ch. 22 — Marcus Dods trans., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.2 Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, Book I ch. 27 — J. F. Shaw trans., NPNF 1.2 Augustine, De Civitate Dei ix.5, as quoted by Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II Q.26 a.6, Q.26 a.7, Q.30 a.3, Q.31 a.3 — Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 2nd rev. ed. 1920 C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, ch. 1 (restating Denis de Rougemont) C. S. Lewis, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," Churchman vol. 73 no. 2, 1949, pp. 59–60 Scripture: Matthew 18:6; Leviticus 19:15 and 19:34; Isaiah 5:20; Mark 8:36 — KJV Case one — Commonwealth v. Clancy, Plymouth County Superior Court Court records and trial testimony, Plymouth County Superior Court Boston Globe review of court records, 27 July 2026 Device forensics testimony, Investigator Chiappini, 13 August 2026 Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, defence forensic pathologist, cross-examination, 18 August 2026 Treating-clinician testimony: Dr. Tufts, NP Jollotta, Dr. Goodheart, Dr. Shah, Dr. Mack Clancy malpractice complaint, January 2026 The Musgrove Family Fund, GoFundMe, figures verified 22 August 2026 Reader comment threads, public forum, verbatim captures pulled 22 August 2026 Case two — State v. Anthony, Collin County Frisco Police arrest report and witness statements, 2 April 2025 — obtained and published by KERA News Trial record and sworn testimony, motion-for-new-trial hearing, 20–21 August 2026 ADA Bill Wirskye, sworn description of the forensic phone extraction, 20 August 2026 Motion for new trial as reported by Court TV Case three — United Kingdom Home Office, "Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK," GOV.UK, published 19 August 2026 Home Office, A Home Office Guide to Rights and Expectations in the UK, first published 2 October 2019, last updated 14 August 2026 UK Borders Act 2007, ss. 32–33 House of Commons Library, CBP-10376, 27 October 2025 Home Office data via IBTimes analysis, 29 June 2026; Migration Observatory caseload figures ONS FOI-2026-3358, 30 January 2026 Information Commissioner's Office decision, 22 June 2026 Data Pew Research Center, Religious Landscape Study — 36,908 US adults, July 2023 to March 2024 Pew Research Center — 3,605 US adults, March 2025; 28,333 adults across 25 countries, January to April 2025 NCHS Data Brief 377, NHANES 2015–2018 (antidepressant use) CDC PRAMS 2018, n=32,659 (postpartum depression prevalence) VanderKruik et al., BMC Psychiatry, 2017 (postpartum psychosis prevalence) Broadcast footage Inside Edition; NBC News; LBC
