Is Moral Equivalence the Great Divide?
In noting the great political divide across the American landscape, it seems that the largest chasm between the Left and the Right boils down simply to: Moral Equivalence. For example, the Left says that the Right are hypocrites because they support the death penalty, while condemning abortion – thus equating the two issues. The Right argues that the issues are not equal; that the innocent life is not, and cannot be, equal to the guilty life. Whether you agree or disagree with the point is irrelevant to my posting – what’s relevant is the drawing of equivalency between the two acts, where there truly is none. Honest people can disagree over whether life begins at conception, or whether a murderer’s life should be taken by the state. Honest people should be able to disagree, shake hands, and have a beer together. I know – I’m dreaming. There are, literally, thousands of examples of this, and as a person on the Right I know firsthand how distasteful it is to be ‘lumped in’ and equated wi
