It's a different world down here...

People do fucked up things to each other down here.
I'm not sure exactly why but in the news this week in my area alone:

A man was charged with wilful murder after allegedly strangling his girlfriend, gassing the house then attempting to take his own life by slitting his throat. He survived, and is in court today.

A man was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm after allegedly getting into a verbal argument with his sister, followed by beating the crap out of her. He punched and kicked her while she was on the ground.

A man was charged with a string of offences after asking his mother for $50 ($50!) so he could buy drugs. His mum said no, he started trashing the house, then pulled a knife on his mum and forced her to drive to the atm to withdraw the $50. On the way there he slashed the interior of the car with a knife. His mum dropped him off at a house he needed to go to, then went straight to the police station to file a report.

And this one outside of my area -A man was charged with assault offences after he began to beat his defacto partner. The lady he was beating was not only six months pregnant with his child, but also in a wheelchair (she was paraplegic). After punching and kicking her till she fell out of the wheelchair, he proceeded to stab her in the face and upper body mutliple times with a syringe.

You can't blame this shit on tv. What happened to these people that made them lose that sense of what is essentially right and wrong??
And how does it affect those who report it? I for one, and rarely surprised these days by hearing about atrocious acts such as these. Perhaps I've become desensitised. I guess as long as I don't think it's okay for these things to happen, I'm still in the clear...