The only reason the author would write such a piece would be because he sees shades of grey only and has no moral compass so he can’t understand.
Oh he understands - that's how he can stick so perfectly to grey areas, because he understands what the moral boundary lines are.
Liberals are utterly intoxicated, drunk even, with linguistic tricks. When they want to cut down trees, they form the Tree Preservation Society to do it.
Liberals are a combination of sophmoric and cruel. It's a bad combo.