On the heels of the assassination of Dr. George Tiller on Sunday, some wondered about what they see as relativism, and complained that radical actions from the extreme Left don’t get the same treatment. As a commenter to my Chron post on the subject asked “Where’s the outrage over extremists from the left?”
Leaving aside the obvious immediate answer (the Tiller story was a current event and the extremist left was not), there’s a valid question there. Because the radicals on the extreme Right and Left have some crucial commonality. More at Polimom Too.
Relativism and Anarchy
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