How To Do Things With Words
Via dsquared, brilliance from Lenin of Lenin's Tomb:
"I think it was the author of the "Lenin's Tomb" blog who gave the definitive account [of moral clarity]:
"Moral relativism" is the completely unacceptable proposition that the USA should be held to a different standard from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
"Moral equivalence" is the completely unacceptable proposition that the USA should be held to the same standards as Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
"Moral clarity" is the perfect Zen-like state from which it is possible to excoriate one's opponents for the sins of both moral relativism and moral equivalance." (dsquared in comments, Unspeak blog, 04/09/06).
"I think it was the author of the "Lenin's Tomb" blog who gave the definitive account [of moral clarity]:
"Moral relativism" is the completely unacceptable proposition that the USA should be held to a different standard from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
"Moral equivalence" is the completely unacceptable proposition that the USA should be held to the same standards as Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
"Moral clarity" is the perfect Zen-like state from which it is possible to excoriate one's opponents for the sins of both moral relativism and moral equivalance." (dsquared in comments, Unspeak blog, 04/09/06).
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