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Culture Wars

Some Morals are More Relative Than Others

by Clay Staggs

I suppose that everyone is now aware that Saddam has been sentenced to death by hanging.

I noticed, though, that the President of the European Union has seen fit to condemn the death sentence. Now, that’s probably to be expected, but notice that it’s done without the slightest hint of the internal self-contradiction that it demonstrates.

Nowhere on earth does post-modern moral relativism reign more unchallenged than in Europe. Now, if a moral relativist were true to himself, he’d look at Saddam’s sentence and conclude that, since every value system is different, and none is either right or wrong, that the local Iraqi value system that allows for death by hanging must be respected and cannot be criticized. Yet, the EU does the exact opposite. They condemn the sentence of hanging. Why? Well, because they’re against it, of course. Get this, from the EU’s official statement:

The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, and it should not be carried out in this case either.

Is that a scream or what? It reminds me of the end of Animal Farm: “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”