On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:10 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
-- James A. Donald:
Moral equivalence, the rationale of those who defend tyranny and slavery.
Roy M. Silvernail
Moral superiority, the rationale of both sides of any given violent conflict. The winner gets to use the victory to proclaim the correctness of their interpretation.
A claim that presupposes that the west is just as totalitarian as its enemies, that well known reality is not to be trusted, that newsmen and historians are servants of the vast capitalist conspiracy,
No claim in evidence. Just the observation that any justificaton for a violent conflict is necessarily subjective.
It does not have to be *true*, you just have to get others to believe it. Of course, the current administration has been handing them example after example to point to to make the point... -- chown -R us ./base