Posted on 06/22/2014 8:45:08 PM PDT by kingattax
“Situational ethicists”.
Gee, you certainly nailed that. It’s been a long time, but that IS the term. You should do a vanity on the subject. I hope I can recall the term in the future as it saves a lot of ‘splainin’ and cussin’. &)
The problem is that no one wants to ‘offend’ their BFFs that practice situational ethics (SE).
I think SE is fairly obvious to us all, it’s just that he use different same for it. Hypocracy ect. But few want to use those words either because we in the right are every bit as bad about being ‘offended’ as the open left.
Yesterday a couple of us had an envounter on another thread with one of those types. He is a longtime opponent of building a real border fence. There is always an excuse, a reason that we just ‘can’t’ build one although this person claims that were it up to him he’d mine the border. Seems pretty situational to me.
Later, he was caught red handed posting ‘official border patrol figures’. Straight from a pro amnesty website. This person was ‘righteously’ miffed because his ‘honor’ was questioned.
Well, it was what it was. A stunning example of situational ethics. Hypocrisy. Flat out manipulation to serve his agenda. What else do you call posting massaged data from left wing sites as fact? He opposes a real fence and backs a candidate that also opposes a real fence, ergo he was going to ‘win’ his argument one way or another. And damn the truth, full speed ahead.
We see that time and time and time and time and time and time again across the right. Everyone is for secure borders except when actually securing the border. Everyone is a staunch rock ribbed conservative stalwart except when pimping hard left RINOs for GOP office. Everyone wants the ISSA investigations to go somewhere, but a few years isn’t enough for a result, we just need to give them more time.
And dear God in heaven, if you question any of that you are an evil purist that loves Obama and hates America.
No we are just fine. The problem, as demonstrated, lies in situational ethics as currently practiced by many on the right. And the willingness of many of us to just pretend it is not what it clearly is.
A strong case could be made for the latter.
ping
Obama Judge Rules Border Fence Is Racist
What an idjit!
It's probably racist to ping this thread. Pinging anyway.
Thanks, sweetiepiezer.
Pictures of a racist border fence that separates Koreans and Koreans.
Up close and quite personal. Thanks.
This “judge” seems to be short a few brain cells.
Thanks for the ping; post. Tactics of ideological totalitarians subverting the republic of the United States of America. TREASON.
Borders, Language, Culture BUMP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0pgVhp-q3I
Stupid judges are part of the price paid for electing democrats...
Laugh of the day!
Consider that graphic stolen!
What if they painted the fence black?
By that “logic,” the manned entry points are also racist.
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him
. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down!" I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again,
"Good fences make good neighbors."
This poem was often read in the high schools of the United States of America, when they were a prosperous and serious country.
Stay out of court, my friends. Stay out of court.
It's probably racist to read this thread, too. Following her logic I should take the doors off our house, not lock our vehicles and stores should most certainly take their doors off so *customers* can shop during off hours. And get rid of those nasty fences surrounding prisons.
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