Danny’s tragedy demands an end to this logic. There can be no comparison between
those who take pride in the killing of an unarmed journalist and those who vow
to end such acts–no ifs, ands, or buts. Moral relativism died with Daniel Pearl,
in Karachi, on January 31, 2002.
There was a time when drawing moral
symmetries between two sides of every conflict was a mark of original thinking.
Today, with Western intellectuals overextending two-sidedness to reckless
absurdities, it reflects nothing but lazy conformity. What is needed now is for
intellectuals, filmmakers, and the rest of us to resist this dangerous trend and
draw legitimate distinctions where such distinctions are warranted.
I am not going to add anything to this, it sums up well what I have been thinking for years.
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