Without wishing away the massacre or diminishing the kind of despotic environment that allows this to happen shouldn't the same kind of moral reprehension be expressed for the massive loss of life in the middle east from Libya, Iraq to Syria?
Yet we rarely see this in the same context as these actions continue to be pursued aggressively with little resistance from citizens in the west.
This seems to a very selective form of morality in practice more at ease judging others than examining our own actions.
Tiananmen is past and beyond but the loss of life and destruction of entire countries that puts millions of lives in disarray in the middle east is here and now and continues unabated yet there is little pressure on our leaders to cease these actions from citizens. No western leader is tainted with the kind of moral reprehension directed at the Chinese inspite of far more serious crimes against humanity. There is a definite dissonance here.
Yet we rarely see this in the same context as these actions continue to be pursued aggressively with little resistance from citizens in the west.
This seems to a very selective form of morality in practice more at ease judging others than examining our own actions.
Tiananmen is past and beyond but the loss of life and destruction of entire countries that puts millions of lives in disarray in the middle east is here and now and continues unabated yet there is little pressure on our leaders to cease these actions from citizens. No western leader is tainted with the kind of moral reprehension directed at the Chinese inspite of far more serious crimes against humanity. There is a definite dissonance here.