[lbo-talk] Moral Foundations

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 16:59:23 PST 2008


Chris Doss wrote:


> He does call the Vietnam War a "Horror," however, for some unknown, extramoral reason. Perhaps the bombings were conducted in an aesthetically unappealing fashion -- no primary colors on the planes.
>
>
> --- On Wed, 12/24/08, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Carrol has no moral qualms about the
>
>> genocide of the Herero people in German Southwest Africa. Or
>> any moral quibble with the use of cluster and white
>>

And he calls US imperialism "The Monster." An ethically neutral monster, of course, perpetrating ethically neutral "horror."

I'm waiting for Bush, in retirement, to protest that what he really meant to denounce was an Axis of Ethically Neutral Evil: "I don't understand why everybody read all these moral judgments into it!"

SA



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