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	Moral equivalence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moral equivalence is a term used in political debate, usually to characterize in a negative way the claim that there can be no moral or ethical hierarchy decided between two sides in a conflict, nor in the actions or tactics of the two sides.
		In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the term is commonly used by defenders of Israel.
		Implying a moral equivalence between a number of atrocities carried out by the Allies during the Second World War and the deeds of the Nazis, especially the Final Solution is a common strategy employed by apologists for the Nazis in Germany, such as politicians of the National Democratic Party of Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moral_equivalence (1283 words)

	The Second Draft
		In the world of moral equivalence, for example, Israeli policies regarding the Palestinians are compared to what the Nazis did, US president George W Bush and neo-conservatives are seen as "extremists" and as fundamentalist as Islamists, and the American abuses at Abu Ghraib are somehow equivalent to torture under Saddam (see also here).
		MORAL SELF-FLAGELLATION: Moral equivalent proponents habitually blur the boundaries between useful self-criticism, essential and vital to any healthy civil society, and a moral self-flagellation, that maximizes "our flaws" and minimize "their" flaws, even when they represent a far greater danger and, as in the case of Jihad, an existential threat.
		If moral equivalence thinkers, for example, applied to the Arab world the same finely tuned moral criteria they apply to their own societies (roadblocks and barriers to protect against suicide terrorism as apartheid racism), their "moral radar" would be instantly overwhelmed by the violence and violation of human rights (honor killings, summary execution of “collaborators”).
	www.seconddraft.org /ess_moral_equivalence.php (1390 words)

	normblog: A plague on both your houses? (by Eve Garrard)
		Moral equivalence claims are not uncommon, and sometimes of course they're justified – two actions, or states of affairs, or persons, can be morally equivalent, can share the same moral status.
		The moral equivalence approach to the cartoons dispute seems to be of this latter form.
		If the proponents of one side claim that they have the advantage of being morally in the right, so that equivalence claims are misplaced, then it can be pointed out to them that the proponents of the other side would make exactly the same claim.
	normblog.typepad.com /normblog/2006/02/a_plague_on_bot.html (1006 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Return of Moral Equivalence by Chris Weinkopf
		Moral equivalence is rooted in moral stupiditythe inability or refusal to make a distinction between the genuinely good, the merely unpleasant, and the patently evil.
		The moral equivalence practiced by the cottage industry of anti-war protesters that’s resurfaced in the last two weeks is more subtle.
		America is not blameless; no country is. There should be a clear moral distinction between a country that occasionally falls horrendously short of its lofty ideals and a cultish philosophy than consistently engages in unadulterated evil for its own sake.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=990 (859 words)

	The Peace Encyclopedia: Moral Relativism, Moral Equivalence, Ethical Relativism, Cultural Relativism, Egalitarianism
		Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence." Another perverse mind, exempting itself from its own conclusions.
		Israel's enemies appear to be poised to secure through skillful use of moral equivalence and other techniques of ideological warfare what they could not do with tanks, missiles and warplanes.
		Not only do they deny that there is any sort of objective truth, they deny effectively empirical verification and procedures of empirical verification because they make truth, and not only truth, but reality, dependent on power relations, i.e., truth and objective reality are ultimately defined in a totalitarian ideology by those people who hold power.
	www.yahoodi.com /peace/mrelativism.html (1787 words)

	AMERICAN FUTURE: Moral Equivalence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		But I had a moral problem with this view among the 2 million protesters that you should leave Saddam in power in a fascist state with 27 million Iraqis under him.
		Belief in the moral equivalence of those who threaten democratic societies and the democratic governments acting to safeguard the lives of their citizens isn't a recent phenomenon.
		Moral equivalence is bad enough; a double standard that excuses a sadistic dictator and condemns an effort to topple him is worse.
	americanfuture.typepad.com /american_future/moral_equivalence (2795 words)

	Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » Moral Equivalence
		The actions of the Bush Administration are not morally equivalent to the actions of Al Q’aeda (so goes the argument) and it is offensive to suggest as much.
		The moral equivalence complaint is constantly used in political discourse, a smoke-screen to justify and excuse morally dubious action.
		Complaining about the lack of moral equivalence between two acts should not be used as an excuse to avoid accounting for the actions of the governments we are responsible for.
	www.robertsharp.co.uk /2006/03/07/moral-equivalence (5108 words)

	BigHominid's Hairy Chasms
		The writer's point (b), then, is an example of moral equivalence, and the best way to tackle that is to examine the falsity of the moral equivalence argument, both empirically and theoretically.
		The other problem is the false dichotomy created by the advocate of moral equivalence, who espouses a species of moral relativism and sees his opponent as cleaving to some form of moral absolutism.
		This is actually key to understanding why the advocate of moral equivalence is willing to be hypocritical: America represents a special case because it's so powerful-- militarily, economically, even culturally (in terms of spreading "American memes" about).
	bighominid.blogspot.com /2004/07/moral-equivalence.html (1660 words)

	'Munich' and moral equivalence - On Line Opinion - 2/2/2006
		The main complaint of the critics, however, is that Munich commits the crime of moral equivalence between the actions of the Palestinian Black Septembrists and their Israeli nemeses, the Mossad hit team.
		The accusation of moral equivalence was spelt out most forthrightly by Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic: "[Munich] is soaked in the sweat of its idea of evenhandedness," he charges.
		The Palestinians are a prisoner nation, refugees and exiles treated like ghosts." For Spielberg to remain on the fence and suggest an equivalence between the ethnic cleansers and the cleansed, the occupiers and the occupied, Israeli hammer and Palestinian anvil is both historically false and morally repugnant.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=4116 (978 words)

	Augean Stables » Moral Equivalence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Moral Equivalence constitutes an important dimension of multi-culturalism as it is currently practiced.
		Partly, because we are dealing with demopaths, with people who use the language of democracy, human rights, moral equivalence, tolerance, not because they believe in them, but because they can use them to disarm us.
		Now we have a sense of the moral universe in which the Israeli boycott pronouncements carry weight: a genocidal, demonizing, irredentist movement which not only targets Israeli civilians, but recklessly endangers and sacrifices Palestinian children, receives support.
	www.theaugeanstables.com /category/moral-equivalence (12693 words)

	Shark Blog: The Palestinian Peace Camp
		At this point, moral condemnation is unlikely to sway anybody, least of all the Palestinians who think that they're engaging in "martyrdom operations" and are inherently moral.
		The only thing that a moral condemnation would get at this point is a charge of treason from some Palestinians and a "but the Israelis are just as bad" from the rest (and Palestinian sympathizers).
		One of the problems with the ad...and of course there are many (including the moral issues),is that it builds yet another layer of deception and lies on top of all the others.
	www.usefulwork.com /shark/archives/000052.html (1341 words)

	Feature: Moral Equivalence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		There is no "moral equivalence" between acts of violence by the Israelis and those of Hamas, the argument goes.
		The former are acts done in moral purity by the "most moral army in the world." The latter are acts of brutal revenge by blood thirsty terrorists.
		Even if one can accept the moral justification for "collateral damage" under certain circumstances, when one drops a bomb from an F-16 onto a residential housing complex, one can't claim that the civilian deaths weren't intentional.
	www.israelblog.org /1027444211 (1254 words)

	NONZERO
		America is a morally universalistic nation, believing that all people, regardless of race, creed, or nationality, are human beings and deserve respect.
		He is a relic of a primitive moral age that humanity, after scores of millenniums, has finally started to crawl out of.
		This is fundamentally what we're fighting about: moral universalism, the idea that no person, by virtue of religion or race or nationality, is better than any other person; the idea that casually devaluing people's lives in the pursuit of your political goals is wrong.
	www.nonzero.org /slatemoralequiv.htm (1203 words)

	Moral Equivalence and Censorware Project's hijacked domain
		That is, moral equivalence is to treat the hijacker as morally equivalent to the people affected by the hijacking.
		The context was a request (denied) to remove Michael Sims from an organizational mailing-list, due to his overall behavior.
		That is, the moral equivalence outcome would mean that if he told a lie, and I told the truth, these would be accounted as equal parts of a dispute.
	sethf.com /freespeech/censorware/project/jw-moral.php (675 words)

	Moral Equivalence?
		The first problem is that the phrase "moral equivalence" is itself empty of meaning.
		The point of moral reasoning is to arrive at the right thing to do, not the "less wrong than the other guy" thing to do.
		Similarly, we can utterly condemn suicide bombings, perhaps even asserting that they are worse than any Israeli actions, while at the same time pointing out that it is wrong for Israel to hold the entire Palestinian population of the West Bank prisoner in response.
	www.lewrockwell.com /callahan/callahan87.html (823 words)

	The American Spectator
		Published 6/14/2005 12:06:39 AM Back when I was in college in the 1980s, the American and European left propounded a belief known as "Moral Equivalence" which essentially said that America was every bit as bad as the Soviet Union.
		Apparently, the doctrine of Moral Equivalence did not die along with the Soviet Union.
		Obviously this is the moral equivalent of a handful of degenerate guards making naked Iraqi prisoners form human pyramids or wear underwear on their heads.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=8297 (556 words)

	Michael Neumann: Reflections on Kant and Moral Equivalence
		I hate it when a similar argument is made by Jews ("the killing of those Palestinian civilians by Israeli planes and bombs is not morally equivalent to the acts of Palestinian terror.").
		The morality which emphasized the bad-heartedness of the killer, the brutality in his soul, was appropriate for a time when killing without brutality was all but impossible.
		So maybe there is, in some cases, a moral equivalence between the American and the Palestinian styles of child-killing.
	www.counterpunch.org /neumann1121.html (1808 words)

	Moral Equivalence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Moral Equivalence is the idea that both sides of a conflict are equally wrong and equally right.
		The United States Government applies moral equivalence to the Middle East.
		Don Feder wrote an excellent column about moral equivalence in the left's condemnation of Israel
	www.primechoice.com /philosophy/shelp/moralequiv.htm (405 words)

	Augean Stables » Moral Equivalence
		IN ORDER TO FULLY UNDERSTAND the dynamics and consequences of moral equivalence one has to be able to identify and understand its main features:
		In an interview to Der Spiegel, Germany’s magazine of reference, in June 2005, filmmaker Woody Allen dismissed the events of September 11 in the following manner: “The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings.
		At the Augean Stables we believe civil society demands a different approach – one that avoids the traps, dangers and relativism of moral equivalence.
	theaugeanstables.com /reflections-from-second-draft/moral-equivalence (1410 words)

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		Moral Equivalence in the Wake of September 11
		When they are unambiguously the "good guys", the West would be able to apply moral susasion to Israel.
		It would be clearly wrong to withdraw and allow the region to slide into a mult-national war or worse.
	www.prescod.net /moralequivalence.html (1828 words)

	Democrats & Liberals:: Moral Equivalence
		This issue has its domestic echo in the question of “moral relativism.” This is spat out like a curse among conservatives, a curse on the head of anyone who sees shades of gray in human behavior.
		Morals without a sense of absolutism are essentially worthless.
		By the way, the very morality of which you speak and apparently follow is based upon in very specific ways Western Christianity.
	www.watchblog.com /democrats/archives/000275.html (3536 words)

	Kesher Talk: Moral equivalence in Munich
		Jim Rockford makes the point that the methods and attitude toward the PLO terrorist hunt was an logical progression from the Nazi hunting of the 50s and 60s, conducted by the same people, which means conflicted feelings about what they were doing would be highly unlikely.
		Posted by: alcibiades at December 7, 2005 10:52 AM I think many "intellectuals" are so into the "shades of gray" worldview that they have forgotten that primary colors exist at all.
		They use what they claim to be their superior understanding of "nuance" as a sign of moral and intellectual superiority.
	www.keshertalk.com /archives/2005/12/moral_equivalen_2.php (977 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Pursuing Moral Equivalence by NewCriterion.com
		Whatever else can be said about the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, the forces arrayed against the U.S.-led coalition have welcomed the episode as a bonanza.
		So when a handful of low-lifes mistreat their charges, the media calls it torture, thus insinuating the desired moral equivalence between Saddam’s thugs and the U.S. army.
		No one we know ever managed to decipher any of these gnomic communications completely, but, like us, many will be saddened to realize that no more such missives are forthcoming.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13785 (1705 words)

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	Islam and moral equivalence
		And thus the moral equivalency argument fails on two grounds:
		The quibbling equivalizer's counter to this is to cite abortion clinic bombings and random acts of violence against particular Muslims.
		These events are not sanctioned by secular or religious authorities, but even if they were, they pale in comparison to the slaughter effected in the name of Islam every day.
	www.presenceofmind.net /GSW/Islam.html (710 words)

	Moral Equivalence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		It is the equivalent of saying that putting a deadbolt on your door is a threat to the thief.
		There is nothing moral about a government refusing to defend its citizens when it believes it can do so."
		Back to the military context, "Shield opponents say the world must continue to rely on mutually assured destruction--a standoff in which no nuclear power dares attack another because each knows there will be a devastating response.
	members.shaw.ca /supplysider/moralequivalence.htm (1312 words)

	Mirror of Justice: Legal Choice = Moral Equivalence?
		These two experiences came to mind as I read the NYT piece, ably dissected by Mark and Rick below, in which the author revels in her decision to abort two of her triplets for no other reason than the inconvenience they posed to her lifestyle.
		The common theme of the article and my wife's experiences, in my view, is the utter lack of moral shame on display.
		As we see from the NYT author, when the burdens of shopping for large mayonnaise jars at Costco and moving to Staten Island are even part of the abortion "cost-benefit" analysis, all bets are off.
	www.mirrorofjustice.com /mirrorofjustice/2004/07/legal_choice_mo.html (1063 words)

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