"Who says to himself, "so what??"
I guess it is me. But only because I have a brain and a heart and sensibilities--and I prefer such tools over gratuitous, superstitious, and self serving prejudice and partiality.
Rightly so. We do make laws, excuses, justifications, and establish provincial tradition to get around what we know in the recesses of reason to be evil, and where we can sense at some core of our conscience to be wrong as wrong can be. Murder aint murder if it's honor killing, it can't be terrorism if it's condoned by the authorities, interrogation is not torture. It isn't oppression, persecution, or genocide when they refuse to follow the right way, it is cleansing.
Maybe it's our density, or maybe it's our destiny:
<b?“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.” (Ambrose Bierce)
Maybe it's simpler than that:
“Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice” (George Bernard Shaw)
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