Moral Relevance is a Crock

Why is it that liberals love to engage in moral relevance?

I imagine it is because moral relevance allows liberals to be both patronizing and elitist under the cover of being "non-judgemental" which is totally horse hooey.

It is completely judgemental to be patronizing and elitist. And let's face it, claiming that a despotic radical authoritarian regime is just the same as a modern industrialized democracy flies in the face of reason, decency, and compassion.

Okay, example. When India came under "imperialist" Britain as a colony, the British governors had no problem stamping out the Indian custom of burning the wife of a dead man alive at her husband's funeral.

There was NO moral relevance issue for the British. They didn't care if it was "custom" or not, those dreadful "imperialists" righted a grievous wrong and I'll bet you any number of rupees that most Indian woman are grateful for the change.

And the argument that because a group is in a developing country then they simply don't know better and therefore must be allowed to "cling" to their custom is patronizing at best, destructive at worst.

All human beings have the capacity to understand their options, to be educated to a more civilized level of existence, to appreciate the finer things of the developed world - like rule-of-law, clean water, indoor plumbing, clear property rights, and cheap energy. By claiming moral relevancy towards any situation, you are basically saying these people can not be judged because they can't ever possibly know better. I'd like to think all humans are better than that.

Claiming moral relevance is intellectually shallow.

These days, liberals have folks so twisted up with this moral relevancy crap that it actually feels brave to stand up and say just because it is that country's custom/tradition/form-of-government doesn't make it right.

When did saying no matter where it happens in the world, slavery is wrong, murder is wrong, genital mutilation is wrong, forced abortion and eugenics is wrong, tribal genocide is wrong? When did all that become okay for liberals because it damn well isn't okay for right thinking conservatives.

From now on, anyone justifying horrific acts and brutal authoritative governance by a moral relevancy claim should be prosecuted as a hate criminal. Turn about is fair play and I'm tired of being called judgemental simply because I want my fellow human beings to have a better way of life.