Moral Inequivalence

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Gaza Mother, 22, Kills Four Israelis in Suicide Bombing

The bomber, Reem al-Reyashi, 22, said in video released after her attack that “it was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists and to knock on the doors of heaven with the skulls of Zionists.” Ms. Reyashi left behind a son aged 3, and a year-old daughter.

Not all cultures are morally equivalent. Moral equivalence requires one to attempt to find value in all cultures, even those of Nazi Germany or the culture that spawned the above-mentioned female humanoid.

I’m comparing two evidently unassociated cultures. Why? An attempt at hyperbole? No. Maybe … just because … they are related!

Arafat, when he was a young terrorist, was trained by a man named Fawzi al-Kutub who, during WW2, actually was an ally of Hitler. Hitler even allowed him to train in an SS training camp in Germany. His given mission was to kill the Jews in Palestine, as Hitler was doing in Germany.

This was Arafat’s most important mentor. You do the math. It ain’t that hard.

Not all cultures have moral validity.

3 thoughts on “Moral Inequivalence”

  1. Well, one could as easily argue that any system of thought which dehumanises people has no moral validity. I base my definition of humanity upon individuals having a particular and well-defined set of 46 (give or take 1 or 2) chromosomes. The rest is judgment, which I prefer to leave up to the God I don’t believe in. He’s more equipped than I am to make such decisions.

    I guess it’s a matter of opinion. One of those opinions, alas, over which people are dying.

  2. But at some point, you have to make a judgment. Otherwise, you end up helping the Nazis and their ilk.

  3. That’s the horror of it.

    The Nazis were human beings.

    That is the lesson of the Holocaust. That is the lesson I’d hope not to forget.

    Pretending they were monsters makes everything far too easy. A fairy tale of a horror. It denies the responsibility of the rest of the world for the peculiar historical reality which gave their party power and it denies the German citizens the responsibility for handing it to them.

    This was the version of history I was taught. I happen to believe it valid. You were taught differently, I guess.

    However, I will say this: there is absolutely NO CORRELATION between saying a criminal is human and supporting his crimes. “Disagree with me and you support terrorism” is a peculiar GW Bush logic and it doesn’t stand up to a moment’s steady reflection.

    I have no inner need to deprive a human of humanity before I can judge his actions an abomination.

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