re: #77 researchok

I see your point- and if we lived in a different world, I might even agree.

But from where I sit right now, moral relativism is a dangerous game.

There are absolutes.

It is never right to hurt a child.

It is never right to hurt a spouse.

The list goes on.

In that vein, it is never right to mitigate bigotry and racism. Either it is evil and immoral and should be rejected or it is not.

I didn’t think the point of the piece was that evil shouldn’t be “rejected”, whatever that means. I thought it was that sometimes, to achieve the greater good, you talk to people, regimes or groups that you hate. Like, for example, Red China. Or the Soviet Union. Both of which had galactic-sized piles of evil and both of whom we decided to talk to. And in both cases I think the consensus is that our talking to them was, on balance, a good thing.