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Matchless moral scrupulousness

The "rational prospect, ultimately fulfilled, that affected populations would exert pressure for the cessation of hostilities" [...] has always motivated Israel's attacks on civilian populations, Israeli diplomat Abba Eban explained years ago.

That is a lie propagated by Chomsky.

“What moral creed [...] allows the killing of children as a regrettable effect of the enemy's locating himself amongst innocents?” The answer is, of course, all of them, depending on circumstances – with one exception: pacifism. And pacifism is immoral because it is an abdication of the responsibility to defend oneself and others. (The circumstances include, for example, some of those where all options have the killing of children as regrettable consequences.) Moreover, the worse the evil being faced, the more immoral pacifism is.

by Editor on Mon, 07/17/2006 - 15:21

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