That Term "Moral Relativism", I Do Not Think…
Michael Gerson asserts that his belief torture is OK as long as Americans do it isn’t “moral relativism.” This man seems deeply confused, although I think it’s more along the line of having a gig which depends on him pretending not to understand things. (Perhaps he also believes that applying his alleged anti-torture principles to the Republicans who used to sign his paychecks would be “Kantian nihilism.”)
I remember with some amusement when Gerson was considered some kind of great moral sage because he drizzled some spurious language of charity and moderation over bog-standard reactionary policy preferences. The Villagers being The Villagers, he probably still is. Pathetic.