More shocking than mowing down children is to mock Jonathan Green

How curious. Islamists can massacre people at a concert, fly passenger jets into tall buildings, blow up drinkers at a Bali bar and mow down sightseers watching the fireworks by a beach, yet ABC presenter Jonathan Green can still maintain his faith in our “cultured reason. Our tolerance. Our audacious confidence in the fundamental goodness of others.”

Only one thing can make Green flinch in his audacious confidence. Being teased as a pompous blowhard by the...