The story of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez just keeps getting worse.
According to numerous reports, investigators believe that Hernandez killed 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, not because of some family spat — Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée — but because Lloyd supposedly had information and was talking to people about a double-murder from 2012, in which Hernandez was allegedly involved.
So, why are so few people shocked? The details are horrific — the kind of thing that would make viewers wince if they were portrayed in a movie. But instead of being greeted with wide-eyed gasps of revulsion and disbelief, the Hernandez story has been met with sad nods and comments, like the one from former Patriot Matt Light, who said, "I have never embraced — never believed in — what Aaron Hernandez stood for."
How is it that a high-paid celebrity athlete can be arrested and charged with first-degree murder and is a person of interest in two more homicides, and general public is not at all surprised?
Comments on websites and radio shows have been sympathetic to the victims and their families and resoundingly unsympathetic toward Hernandez, but few have said, I’m shocked. I can’t believe this has happened!
Has society at large become so morally vacuous that a brutal homicide to allegedly cover up two more murders is met with a collective yawn?
The answer is almost certainly, no.
Arrests of NFL athletes are expected.
