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Because I can't bear to eulogize Doug - 2008-08-19
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11:12 a.m. - 2004-05-23
One of the hot catchphrases in the Conservative world right now is ‘moral relativity’. Much finger pointing and bluster about how ‘moral relativity’ is driving this country to wrack and ruin. This cracks me up. Leveling a charge of moral relativity is the nifty new way to blame the victim for the crime. It’s the fanciest phrase yet to justify ducking responsibility and being a stubborn jackass who refuses to see the facts. It’s a nifty nice-nelly way of saying, “Since you are a moral relativist with no decency or values, we don’t have to CARE what the extenuating circumstances are. We don’t CARE who you are or what you believe. Don’t bother us with truth, WE know what’s wrong and what’s right…ALL THE TIME FOR EVERYBODY.” ‘Moral certainty’ (which is the flip-side to ‘moral relativity’) is what allowed then-Governor Bush to send a 17 year old retarded kid to the electric chair. Didn’t matter how young the kid was. Didn’t matter what his IQ was. Didn’t matter that the kid was in the wrong place at the wrong time and lacked the mental ability to extricate himself from a situation gone horribly awry. Or mount an adequate defense at his trial or even fully understand what he was on trial for. If one is ‘morally certain’ it’s okay to fry a retarded teenager. “I’m not a blindly hating bigot, I’m morally certain!” “I don’t have to understand all the facts, I have TRUE VALUES!” I have to laugh, otherwise I’d puke. Disgusted as ever, ~LA
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