Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Since when is telling the truth evidence you’ve stopped thinking?

Jonah Goldberg reviews the recent history of our leaders using or refraining to use the word evil to describe the jihadists.
Is it true? Is the Islamic State evil?

As a matter of objective moral fact, the answer seems obvious. But also under any more subjective version of multiculturalism, pluralism, or moral relativism shy of nihilism, “evil” seems a pretty accurate description for an organization that is not only intolerant toward gays, Christians, atheists, moderate Muslims, Jews, women, et al. but also stones, beheads, and enslaves them.

Who are you saving the word for if “evil” is too harsh for the Islamic State? More to the point,
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