Galaxy Highland 10
McDonald Honestly Enlightened and a Guardian of True Compassionate Humanism
RECEIVED Mon., April 21, 2008
Dear Editor,
Yes, again Louis Black does exactly what he condemns others of doing. But that is the least of what he insinuates in his recent “Page Two” article [April 18]. Indeed, his piece cunningly presents a deadly spirit of moral nihilism delicately wrapped in the pavement on hell’s road – credulous good intentions. This is exemplified in his article’s professed life premise of accepting ourselves and others for what we are, obscuring moral clarity and freedom’s champion – America.
He effectively advocates an unenlightened status quo existence where true evil is not openly identified and fought and human misery is preferred as the consensus measure of equality. His mindset ignores the need to defeat those who would commit genocide, torture, and world enslavement, e.g., Islamist and Marxist fascists. And this is to say nothing of the crucial necessity of reinforcing the existential moral values of Western civilization and American exceptionalism. Black is representative of an acute societal pathology – insidious moral relativism.
Conversely, moral clarity requires protecting humanity from these evils and sublimely enlightening our species. And ironically, this is an amazingly simple process. Moral action is advocating and spreading what we practice daily – individual accountability and freedom, respect for others and expecting them to reciprocate, and condemning all vestiges of lethal envious resentments while practicing the greatest virtues – humility, gratitude, and defending the precious freedom that results. These precepts are what John Kennedy meant by proclaiming that liberty be defended at all costs.
Black attempts to conceal his real ideological sympathies – moral retreat, aka neo-leftism. But through the filter of objective ethical and intellectual reality his diversions do not work. Sadly, Black, his progressive ilk, and their Democrat political water carriers have no interest in honest enlightenment. That is why they must never be counted on as guardians of true compassionate humanism.
Yes, again Louis Black does exactly what he condemns others of doing. But that is the least of what he insinuates in his recent “Page Two” article [April 18]. Indeed, his piece cunningly presents a deadly spirit of moral nihilism delicately wrapped in the pavement on hell’s road – credulous good intentions. This is exemplified in his article’s professed life premise of accepting ourselves and others for what we are, obscuring moral clarity and freedom’s champion – America.
He effectively advocates an unenlightened status quo existence where true evil is not openly identified and fought and human misery is preferred as the consensus measure of equality. His mindset ignores the need to defeat those who would commit genocide, torture, and world enslavement, e.g., Islamist and Marxist fascists. And this is to say nothing of the crucial necessity of reinforcing the existential moral values of Western civilization and American exceptionalism. Black is representative of an acute societal pathology – insidious moral relativism.
Conversely, moral clarity requires protecting humanity from these evils and sublimely enlightening our species. And ironically, this is an amazingly simple process. Moral action is advocating and spreading what we practice daily – individual accountability and freedom, respect for others and expecting them to reciprocate, and condemning all vestiges of lethal envious resentments while practicing the greatest virtues – humility, gratitude, and defending the precious freedom that results. These precepts are what John Kennedy meant by proclaiming that liberty be defended at all costs.
Black attempts to conceal his real ideological sympathies – moral retreat, aka neo-leftism. But through the filter of objective ethical and intellectual reality his diversions do not work. Sadly, Black, his progressive ilk, and their Democrat political water carriers have no interest in honest enlightenment. That is why they must never be counted on as guardians of true compassionate humanism.
Vance McDonald
