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Peaceful Dave's avatar

I think that people are more concerned with being called anti-semetic or pro-Hamas than they are about morality.

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Pithy Pragmatist's avatar

For the first 1/3 of your article, I thought I was reading a thoughtful analysis on moral reasoning. And then I read the question (posed as if it were factual) about someone flying halfway around the world to steal someone’s home and it became instantly clear that the bait & switch was on.

Rather than applying moral reasoning to actual facts, we were going to be subjected to a series of historically inaccurate propaganda statements that, if true, would lead to obvious conclusions any 5 year old would reach. The unsuspecting reader would feel an artificial sense of pride that they reached the correct moral conclusion, and if they were truly a useful idiot they’d never even question all the false premises that tee’d up these softballs.

I wonder how many readers will be fooled by this sophomoric sleight of hand.

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