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#4188: Dorce On Moral Superiority, answers M. Jerome (fwd)
From:LAKAT47@aol.com
In a message dated 06/11/2000 10:44:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Jepiem@aol.co
m writes:
<< He will have proven himself to be a good leader, a good visionary, a good
tactician, a good politician and a good president. I will be happy too.But
could we please leave morality out of that? I think Clinton has been a good
President of the United States or at least I see him trying hard to be that.
But do I want him to be my moral beacon? of course not. Understood? >>
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Yes SIR! ;) I understand what you are saying about President Clinton. I
agree with you that his morality with regard to his private affairs (ahem!)
is lacking. But I go further and say that he holds moral ground with regard
to his approach to governance. THAT is why his personal life was exposed,
because the Republicans couldn't attack his presidential ethics. You'd
better believe they would have gotten him there if there had been one
opening. The millions of dollars spent to discredit him is shameful. If the
same folks could have found something concrete on Aristide, you'd better
believe we'd all know that by now! One's morality isn't a complete package
where weakness in one area discounts moral behavior in another.
While morality is a subjective term, can we agree that people who believe
that poor, uneducated Haitians are sub-human and not worthy of consideration
are less moral in the area of human rights than those who believe that all
humans deserve certain inalienable rights? Aristide may suffer from a kind
of "the ends justify the means" desperation; it is not easy to fight a tiger
with a dove. I do believe that in the area of human rights, Aristide holds
the higher ground but injustice and war waged against you, makes people
desperate. Running drugs towards the end of human rights is immoral, in my
book. If it is proven he is doing that, it will ruin all he has tried to
accomplish. Give me proof.
Kathy Dorce