These results suggest that the challenge is not just to Lord Leveson to propose a better system of press regulation, but to newspaper editors to persuade their readers that, in their choice of stories, their own
moral framework deserves more respect than that of the celebrities whose lives they expose.
Similarly, apologists who would defend such abhorrent depictions of deity behaviors as justifiable
deserve the disdain of any reasonable person who accepts empathy as the principal component of any viable
moral framework.