Know Where the Line Is And Don't Cross It

This week, we were collectively horrified by the story of a naked man who was caught in the act of chewing a man’s face off on the side of a road in Florida, then shot and killed. The grisliness of the news has been coupled with a number of references to the “Miami zombie” and, by extension, lots of jokes, slideshows, and other making light of what is at once a tragedy and, what one had hoped, an aberration.