Looking out for the casket business

We've all been in the situation where we've used some common phrase inappropriately. We mean it as just a brush-off or subject change or just to say, "Well, how about that", but we pick the wrong time or place. It happens.

But last night, watching the documentary Rize, I heard possibly the worst use of a common phrase ever. In a section of the movie where they were talking about the horrible crime in South Central LA and Inglewood, they showed an older man who owned a casket store talking to one of the young dancers. Laughing, the casket store owner says, "You young people are dying out faster than us old folks, the way you're killing each other off! Ah, well...to each their own."

"To each their own"?!! I'm sure he just meant is something to say, with no more meaning than, "Yup". But it came off sounding like, "Hey, if you want to drive around the neighborhood picking random victims and gunning them down on the sidewalk, that's your business. Who am I to say whether that's right or wrong?"

Kids these days...