Anyone feeling there is some degree of moral equivalence between the two sides should ask themselves these questions formulated by Sam Harris:
1. Can you imagine Israel using Israeli women and children as human shields, as Hamas does with Palestinian women and children?
2. If they did, would that deter Hamas from attacking and thus killing innocents, or would it encourage them to do so?
The fascinating thing is that those who posit that there is moral equivalence, or that one side is as bad as the other, or even that Hamas is justified in its brutal actions decline to answer. They know the answers (which are, after all, perfectly obvious) yet still refuse to say them. To my mind that makes them wicked: they know the side they support is evil, and they don't care.
Anyone feeling there is some degree of moral equivalence between the two sides should ask themselves these questions formulated by Sam Harris:
1. Can you imagine Israel using Israeli women and children as human shields, as Hamas does with Palestinian women and children?
2. If they did, would that deter Hamas from attacking and thus killing innocents, or would it encourage them to do so?
The fascinating thing is that those who posit that there is moral equivalence, or that one side is as bad as the other, or even that Hamas is justified in its brutal actions decline to answer. They know the answers (which are, after all, perfectly obvious) yet still refuse to say them. To my mind that makes them wicked: they know the side they support is evil, and they don't care.