His Gaza commentary shows just how wrong things can go when philosophers approach current events with nothing but their moral intuitions and whatever they gleaned from this morning's New York Times.
It was during the great War on Terror Internet debates of ‘02 that I realized that what most people mean by “moral relativism” is asking the US or Israel to act in accordance with that maxim that it could at the same time will that it was a universal law.
Hi Ben, great article - as an Australian I am ashamed of Peter Singer's opinion on Israel-Palestine! I believe the armed resistance of Palestinians deserves our support - it would be odd to condemn the ANC and Nelson Mandela for having engaged in violent resistance under South African apartheid. Interesting article on the topic: https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/free-palestine-why-we-say-by-any-means-necessary/
It was during the great War on Terror Internet debates of ‘02 that I realized that what most people mean by “moral relativism” is asking the US or Israel to act in accordance with that maxim that it could at the same time will that it was a universal law.
Hi Ben, great article - as an Australian I am ashamed of Peter Singer's opinion on Israel-Palestine! I believe the armed resistance of Palestinians deserves our support - it would be odd to condemn the ANC and Nelson Mandela for having engaged in violent resistance under South African apartheid. Interesting article on the topic: https://solidarity.net.au/highlights/free-palestine-why-we-say-by-any-means-necessary/