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On Moral Equivalency

I'm curious if any of the same people who are in an uproar over the moral equivalency implied by your use of Nuremberg take similar issue with the comparison of abortion to the holocaust put forth by the Genocide Awareness Project -- a display that implicitly compares women who have abortions to the Nazi regime. Now, I don't mean to paint with a broad brush, but given the Drudge Report's role in your statement's initial publicity, it's likely that many people expressing their outrage are part of the conservative movement. There is certainly a cross-section of political interest between "climate denialists" and the Christianist movement, as Andrew Sullivan would call it. At the very least both sides have a very real political interest in rejecting scientific consensus, an objective that kind of binds them to the general conservative movement.

Basically, I wouldn't be surprised if some them aren't exactly consistent with their own moral equivalency. Pot kettle black and all that.

There probably are a lot of people out there legitimately offended by the word choice of your comparison, and I agree that it was inexact and inappropriate, but it's certainly nothing that should be held to demonize you. Especially when your larger point, at least the one that I think you were making, has some real validity - mainly that if the projections about the impact of climate change bear out, then there is bound to be future public inquiry into who or what bears moral culpability for the grave negative effects.On On climate denialists and Nuremberg posted 3 years, 1 month ago 4 Responses