{"id":214,"date":"2007-05-16T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=214"},"modified":"2007-05-16T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:34:28","slug":"the-moral-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"The Moral Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;m sure the Republicans think that morality is a very important issue in politics.  That they stand full force against moral relativism (which is the incorrect word they use when they mean &#8220;amoralism&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>So how come is it that when confronted with one of the biggest moral issues of our time &#8212; whether or not to torture prisoners because they might be terrorists &#8212; the supposed moral stalwarts fall behind weasel words and euphemisms (&#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221;), moral equivalence (&#8220;Al-Quaeda doesn&#8217;t observe the Geneva convention!&#8221;), fantasy (&#8220;We need Jack Bauer!&#8221;) and rationalization (&#8220;ticking time bomb&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Why is that the only people who define a bright moral line against torture are the <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/05\/palmetto_pundit.html#trackback\">RINO and the Libertarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how the only two people who have bright moral standards are the RINO and the pot-smoking Libertarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-3s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}