Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Moral Superiority
Thomas Sowell: Immigration taboos:
"Citizen-of-the-world types are resistant to the idea of tightening our borders, and especially resistant to the idea of making a distinction between people from different countries. But the real problem is not their self-righteous fetishes but the fact that they have intimidated so many other people into silence."
Where did the idea of moral equivalency come from? I suspect that it stems from the guilt we feel as being lucky enough to have been born in America. For some reason, rather than actually do something to bring aid to the various sufferings around the world, there is a tendency to apologize for the rituals, practices, and common usages that are the very root cause of the suffering: unchecked corruption, subjugation of women, racism, genocide. And strangely, we equivocate and say that we have no right to judge our behaviours and values as superior to those of other coutries, tribes, etc..
BS! The moral superiority of the USA and its people is off of the charts compared with every other nation state on the planet. Sure we have problems but we fix them, and when we try to fix those broken systems elsewhere, we are the great hegemon. Do I want a McDonald's on every street in the world? No. Do I respect and enjoy other cultures and people? Of course. Do I think that their opinion of me and my country matters one little bit? Not a chance in hell.
Our men and women have sacrificed their lives in the millions to save and protect the oppressed of the world. We are able to do this because of our capitalist system which creates the wealth; we are willing to sacrifice for others because we are quite simply morally superior. When the Germans asked, the french shipped their Jews straight to the crematories, as did just about every other continental European country. Sick, sick, sick. We're not talking about 500 years ago, we're talking about people who are in their 80's, still alive today. I tolerate no criticism from these people or their progeny. My policy would be that the USA start caring what Murderous Russia, Genocidal germany, and the pathetically endearing (albeit self-preservatively genocidal in their own right) french think in about 100 years. That should be enough generations to disinfect their gene pool from their evil proclivities.
Until then, we will continue to aid and comfort the suffering and play cop on the mean streets of the world stage.
"Citizen-of-the-world types are resistant to the idea of tightening our borders, and especially resistant to the idea of making a distinction between people from different countries. But the real problem is not their self-righteous fetishes but the fact that they have intimidated so many other people into silence."
Where did the idea of moral equivalency come from? I suspect that it stems from the guilt we feel as being lucky enough to have been born in America. For some reason, rather than actually do something to bring aid to the various sufferings around the world, there is a tendency to apologize for the rituals, practices, and common usages that are the very root cause of the suffering: unchecked corruption, subjugation of women, racism, genocide. And strangely, we equivocate and say that we have no right to judge our behaviours and values as superior to those of other coutries, tribes, etc..
BS! The moral superiority of the USA and its people is off of the charts compared with every other nation state on the planet. Sure we have problems but we fix them, and when we try to fix those broken systems elsewhere, we are the great hegemon. Do I want a McDonald's on every street in the world? No. Do I respect and enjoy other cultures and people? Of course. Do I think that their opinion of me and my country matters one little bit? Not a chance in hell.
Our men and women have sacrificed their lives in the millions to save and protect the oppressed of the world. We are able to do this because of our capitalist system which creates the wealth; we are willing to sacrifice for others because we are quite simply morally superior. When the Germans asked, the french shipped their Jews straight to the crematories, as did just about every other continental European country. Sick, sick, sick. We're not talking about 500 years ago, we're talking about people who are in their 80's, still alive today. I tolerate no criticism from these people or their progeny. My policy would be that the USA start caring what Murderous Russia, Genocidal germany, and the pathetically endearing (albeit self-preservatively genocidal in their own right) french think in about 100 years. That should be enough generations to disinfect their gene pool from their evil proclivities.
Until then, we will continue to aid and comfort the suffering and play cop on the mean streets of the world stage.
# posted by W. : 12:12 PM
