[lbo-talk] Re: Berlusconi next? and John Kerry's options

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>A rationally ethical person would also flip-flop, wouldn't she? 
>Given  that we face dilemmas whose nature alters with time, the 
>least worst alternative is always changing.  Our own decisions and 
>actions have to  change with it.  I don't know how much, if any, of 
>Kerry's opportunism  can be explained in this way, but I don't think 
>moral absolutism  provides a rational basis for judgments of 
>unethical opportunism.
>
>Splitting the social world into a set of equally demonic "enemies" 
>(e.g. the only difference between Kerry and Bush is that Kerry is a 
>more clever and, therefore, worse demon) and a set of equally 
>angelic  "victims" is another expression of unmastered sadism.
>
>Ted

If American liberals and leftists who were determined to vote for 
Kerry _no matter what_ could overcome their moral absolutism which 
Ted argues is rooted in "unmastered sadism," flip-flop to the left in 
response to changing circumstances, and at least come to the position 
that they will vote for Nader _unless_ Kerry pursues the "Zapatero 
option," I'd very much welcome such a flip-flopping.
-- 
Yoshie

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