Sunday, July 23, 2006
(11:39 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Moral Compass
Throughout the 1990s, it seems like we had reached a broad cultural concensus that child molestation was the worst possible crime. Do you think that's still true, or has the terrorist eclipsed the child molestor in our collective revilement? After all, a terrorist -- or even a presumed terrorist -- can under certain moral rubrics be shot on sight, something that is not generally considered to be true of child molestors. But that might be construed as more of a practical matter than a reflection of moral difference -- after all, there are relatively few suicide child molestors, perhaps even none.What does the world think?
