It's true that liberals have no
idea what to do about evil: the only evil they can really fully imagine is
the evil of believing that evil exists, the evil of "demonisation". Because
of this, liberals tend to surrender the prerogative of *naming* evil is to
the extremists, who certainly know what to do with it.
Point taken, Dom.
Especially the last: they fall right into it, head (or feet?) first. That
conundrum: that to defeat evil we must match it?
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
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