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GUTFIELD ON WHAT MORALITY IS

Here's the gratuitous re-post:

It’s always amazing listening to people who believe you must adhere to a set of standards when fighting an enemy who refuses to believe standards exist. Our enemy - who beheads the innocent, flings acid into the faces of children, and flies planes into buildings - must relish this endless opera of handwringing - for they know a worried adversary is a weakened one.

Lets get this straight: implementing enhanced interrogation techniques is not immoral. What’s immoral is not doing everything possible to prevent an enemy from killing the people you love. That one rule overrules everything - making the actions you take toward that enemy supremely moral - whether the acts involve waterboarding, sleep deprivation, playing loud music, or watching David Shuster.

The idea that waterboarding is evil really stems from certain folks feeling awkward when asked about it at Brentwood cocktail parties. And that’s the truly immoral element in this ridiculous debate: if saving face means more than saving lives, then we’re totally screwed. I’d rather live in a country that’s despised for waterboarding two asshats, than a well-liked one with craters for cities. The desire for popularity is really at the heart of this: and it’s a far worse moral crime than anything done with a rag and bucket of water.

He's right. Per usual, the positions on the left generally have more to do with painting them selves as holy enlightened love children that are better and more highly evolved then everyone else, than actually getting their hands dirty and dealing with ALL of the world- good as well as bad. I can't tell you how many times I hear from them that the mere belief in the existence of evil is....well, evil. That is just too much to make room for in their deluded Happy Gumdrop Land.

How safe do you feel with people running the country who deny the entirety of the human world?