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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Paul Smith who wrote (154408)1/16/2011 3:03:26 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) of 541946
 
>>Now we’ve settled into the by-any-means-necessary argument: anything that gets us to focus on the rhetoric and tamp it down is a good thing. But a wrong in the service of righteousness is no less wrong, no less corrosive, no less a menace to the very righteousness it’s meant to support.

You can’t claim the higher ground in a pit of quicksand.

Concocting connections to advance an argument actually weakens it. The argument for tonal moderation has been done a tremendous disservice by those who sought to score political points in the absence of proof.<<

I do think that the rush to judgement we saw in the media was abhorrent.

But does Mr. Blow really want to advance the argument that moderating the tone of political discourse isn't a worthy goal simply because there was no connection between violent rhetoric and the events in Tuscon? It seems to me that the two issues aren't really related.

He speaks of a "wrong in the service of righteousness," but it isn't clear to me what wrong he's referring to. It seems as though he's saying that the wrong is in the calls for a more civil public debate, which is obviously a ridiculous position to take.

I think it's also important to point out that if people respond emotionally to a massacre, it shouldn't be a surprise.
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