Posted by Dan Ewert : 3/09/2003 09:30:00 PM (Archive Link)
Not surprisingly, the good folks at The Nation are in favor of weapons inspectors... for the United States. From this article, a few on the left even made a symbolic attempt on their own. This is another example of how many liberals have completely lost whatever moral compass they once had in that they freely draw an equivalence between a country like Iraq and the U.S. Actually, equivalence may not be the right word since they usually view the U.S. as being far worse than Iraq or any other country. Somehow, the country that preserves domestic freedom, supports worldwide freedom, and allows all and any manner of dissent is more oppressive than places where opposition earns you a bullet in the back of your skull. A nation that stringently tries to limit and eliminate rogue governments that attempt to produce and, more importantly, use weapons of mass destruction is more dangerous and wild-eyed than the rogue countries themselves.

Some might say that the people who believe such things live outside of reality. That could be true. I think that abandoning morals, ethics, and the concepts of good and evil can do that. Their own notion of reality exists without such things but it takes them further away from actual reality because there is good and evil and there are there are people who do very bad things whether they see it or not. There’s the idea that morals and ethics are merely props for the false reality humanity creates for itself. I rather wonder if they only help us to get closer to reality as it actually is.