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Moral Equivalency

Comment comment by LordDilly on 10 April 2008

Yeah, you wouldn't want China to lower the tone, for chrissake.

Sooo ... the author thinks the world hasn't changed in the last hundred years? That because all of the world's nations have skeletons in their closet it means people living today in 2008 are hypocritical for protesting the human rights abuses of China? Because of mistakes made by our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers we, their children, are supposed to turn a blind eye to the evils of the world?

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RE: Moral Equivalency by Occams :: NR6 :: on 10 April 2008

Not at all. The way I read it he was encouraging protest by showing that there is nothing sacred about the torch or the motives of the countries who try to use it to gain respectability.

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RE: Moral Equivalency by Occams :: NR6 :: on 19 April 2008

I have changed my mind about supporting China hosting the Olympics.

This incident and this has changed everything for me.

If China thinks it can arm a genocidal megalomaniac bastard like Mugabe and then play the friendly host to the world, it is quite wrong. China must be taught that there will be a serious impact on the willingness of most nations to play along.