The effect of Social media on Society
It recently occurred to me that people posting on social media don't get the standard feedback from face to face contact. If you said something that offended others you would see it immediately. As a result we are seeing things spoken which people would have been ashamed of 50 years ago. What happens is we are actually seeing what is in the hearts of people and the people whose mind is on the flesh and sin have discovered that many others agree with them and as a result they are getting emboldened and feeding off of one another.
One would think that it is the opposite because we are seeing cancel culture which is people offended at what others have said gone crazy. But I don't think so. I don't really think someone reads through old tweets and emails that are twenty years old and says "this offended me". Instead, I think they target someone they want to cancel and then find some reason. The problem is it is totally hypocritical because based on the criteria they use you would expect Biden to have been cancelled.
You can argue that's not true, there are real reasons why people are cancelled like the allegations against kavanaugh concerning alleged deplorable behavior in high school. But based on that you would think that Cuomo and Biden would have been cancelled. The same people who were so outraged and offended by unsubstantiated allegations for Kavanaugh had nothing to say about the far more believable allegations against Cuomo and Biden.
So then the rule has nothing to do with righteousness. We have sinners who are unleashed, discovering that there are a whole lot of people who think like them, and they have no issue with lying, stealing or murdering others.