Free Republic

Moral relativism is enticing. It enables me to establish the moral value of everything I do by reference to the behavior of others. It allows me to avoid censure by judging my intentions, choices and actions not on the basis of whether they are intrinsically right or wrong, but by the lesser standard of whether someone in a similar position might have done something similar. It is deeply corrosive of personal mores and social trust. Over time it dulls the conscience to any moral hierarchy. It is never a legal defense and shouldn’t be a moral one. Moral relativism is...

Betsy Reed is the US editor of the U.K .Guardian. She happens to have a case of extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome. And she wears that bias proudly in order to fundraise from likeminded readers of the US edition of The Guardian to the extent that her bias comes off as flatly comical. You can read Reed making her pitch at the bottom of this Sunday article about a lost tribe of indigenous people deep in the Amazon. You can see Reed begin her pitch with this title: "Why you can rely on the Guardian not to bow to Trump –...