The terrorist attack on Israel was an opportunity for those averse to moral complexity to let their freak flags fly. At New York magazine, Eric Levitz has an excellent survey of moral idiocy on the left. If you look around American politics, you can see the early stages - and in select cases not so early - of the kind of moral, social and intellectual deterioration that first imagines, and later gleefully invites, atrocity. It’s not a terribly long distance from eye for an eye to baby for a baby. No doubt some foes of Hamas will now rejoice at the sight of Palestinian babies blown to smithereens in retaliation. It was an acquired habit, the result of a process of moral dulling and rage sharpening. ![]() The Hamas terrorists who murdered babies in their cribs last week weren’t stamped with pathological hatred at birth. It took years of conditioning, via propaganda, and then steady practice, via party and state brutality, to shed their humanity and become a nation of functional sociopaths. ![]() Germans did not become Jew killers in a day.
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