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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Poet who wrote (10622)11/16/2001 10:22:56 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Morality is a common recognition of the difference between right and wrong, widely and broadly shared by most people, even those who don't share the same religious faith, and even those who profess no faith at all.

If you don't choose to recognize unclewest, individually, as a moral authority, that's fine, but it strikes me that what he is saying is in fact true: our nation would not support a war if we perceived it was being fought for purposes we collectively deemed immoral. And it is our collective sense of morality as much as anything else that has made our nation strong and keeps it strong: the sense that everyone is entitled to a fair shake in life and the fruits of their own labor so long as they follow commonly agreed upon rules and predictable norms of behavior (not stealing, not killing, being trustworthy and fundamentally honest, etc.).

I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.
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