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> And, I thought Leighs post was the type that feeds into neo-con
> tropes/stereotypes about New Leftist "moral equivalence."
"moral equivalence"? You mean this recipe for socio-political paralysis?
<...> Moral equivalence is a term used in political debate, usually to negatively characterize the humanist claim that 'there can (be) no moral or ethical hierarchy decided between two sides in a conflict, nor in the actions or tactics of the two sides.' The term has some limited currency in polemic debates about the Cold War, and more currently, the Israel-Palestine conflict. "Moral equivalence" arose as a polemic term-of-retort to "moral relativism," which had been gaining use as an indictment against... [wikipedia] <...>
I prefer the description: "positive moral correlation"
Leigh http://www.leighm.net
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