Further adventures in moral certainty
"I'm sorry for the deaths." Please let that sink in. I'm sure this Jesse person thinks he's one of the good guys. One of the people who simply want to bring peace and prosperity to the world. And for him, the way to do that is to smash American hegemony. But he doesn't see American hegemony only in its hard power—military, economic. He sees it also in the supposedly "good" things the Empire does, like providing medical assistance around the world. This kind of largesse merely inures global populations to the inherent evil of the American Empire. The world must be cleansed of American hegemony in all its forms. And if that means that thousands—hundreds of thousands, millions, entire regions suffering grievous mortality—then that is a small price to pay for "freedom". One is very free when one is in the grave. I've spoken at length about "horseshoe theory". And there are academics—leftists, of course—who blanche at the mere ins...
