Sunday, March 11, 2012

The ever-present danger to the struggle to bring sense to human existence

There's an aspect of reality that's really disheartening. A look at history provides a plethora of examples. We've had two recently. There was Rush Limbaugh's enormous mistake in descending into juvenile rhetoric concerning Sandra Fluke when it would have been sufficient to focus on her assault on religious and economic freedom. Now comes, in the wake of the MEC's totally pathetic and wrong apology for the inadvertent Koran burnings in Afghanistan, an actual case of what appears to be an unjustified atrocity by a US soldier there. Apparently the guy burst into several homes in a village near his base, indiscriminately opening fire and killing 16 and wounding even more.

The incidents that cause all manner of new trouble in no way negate the underlying principles operative in the larger situations at hand, but they set aside a debate about those principles, as everyone focuses on the random nonsensical acts that have increased the chaos level.

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