When innocent women and children (and men for that matter) are being systematically starved when that starvation is avoidable and curable, there is no grey. You are right, Jill, to put the matter plainly. Nuance be damned. People are starving and that is repugnant.
Well said. You've danced the ethical tightrope in a way that decent Americans should be able to recognize. We've seen our own country be an international scourge, bringing torture and death to innocent peoples. Most of us should be able to apprehend that feeding the hungry trumps all of it. I still hope.
Sure I agree about double standards about existence of only one ethnostate when there are several others. But we are not required to morally validate the existence of Iran as an Islamic state, whereas some people insist we must accept the ethnostate not as a practical reality but a moral one. It’s ridiculous, and conceding that point leads to far right types like Netyanhu in India and Christians white supremacists in America to use the same logic. How do you counter the claim that there are so many Muslim states, why can’t there be one Hindu state? We can accept the practical reality of a Jewish state while also not be required to validate its ethnoreligious nature. I find the tendency of leftists excusing Islamic religious fundamentalism as worrying as liberals excusing and sympathizing with the idea of Jewish supremacism. We must not concede an inch on the virtues of liberal democracy.
When innocent women and children (and men for that matter) are being systematically starved when that starvation is avoidable and curable, there is no grey. You are right, Jill, to put the matter plainly. Nuance be damned. People are starving and that is repugnant.
Well said. You've danced the ethical tightrope in a way that decent Americans should be able to recognize. We've seen our own country be an international scourge, bringing torture and death to innocent peoples. Most of us should be able to apprehend that feeding the hungry trumps all of it. I still hope.
What would Elie Wiesel think about the Netanyahu regime and the people of Israel? (Not to mention all the Trumpers who enable them.)
Sure I agree about double standards about existence of only one ethnostate when there are several others. But we are not required to morally validate the existence of Iran as an Islamic state, whereas some people insist we must accept the ethnostate not as a practical reality but a moral one. It’s ridiculous, and conceding that point leads to far right types like Netyanhu in India and Christians white supremacists in America to use the same logic. How do you counter the claim that there are so many Muslim states, why can’t there be one Hindu state? We can accept the practical reality of a Jewish state while also not be required to validate its ethnoreligious nature. I find the tendency of leftists excusing Islamic religious fundamentalism as worrying as liberals excusing and sympathizing with the idea of Jewish supremacism. We must not concede an inch on the virtues of liberal democracy.