Is there a kind of moral imperialism that is morally
objectionable?
Take, Germany's Chancellor' Merkel a trained scientist unlike UK politicians (Cameron who made the right call on refugees) with their PPE's from Oxford made a giant error when she stood atop Mount Moral and declaimed to the biblical streams of refugees/economic migrants 'Come All...You are All Welcome' Is this the action of Germany, the guilt-ridden rehabilitated criminal of the past, wishing to make amends to the world. In the short term images appear of German citizens doling out welcome signs in the longer term (already started) young German woman are being advised how to dress as the new arrivals do not understand their mode of dress
David Cameron makes a far wiser evaluation in taking refugees from the Camps close to Syria.
The EU (all unelected) slams the Hungarian Prime Minister for voicing the wishes of his people. as Janet Daley has it UK Sunday Telegraph 27/9/15
in the midst of the general vilification of Viktor Orban, the Hungarian leader who has inspired moral outrage for his hard-line stand on the migrant crisis, you might have missed the vaguely sardonic mention in the news coverage of the leap in his popularity at home.
The voters who put him in office, it seems, hugely approve of the Orban policy. Imagine that: a European leader who actually chooses to represent the views of his own electorate rather than please the unelected commissioners of the EU.
But that is just the mob with its ancient hatreds and bloodthirsty prejudices is how the media view Hungarian protest to how immigration is best approached.
The obvious implication on the broadcast news was that this rise in approval within his own country was somehow indecent: a crass populist stance targeted deliberately at a benighted population. Either Mr Orban was a nasty piece of work who was opportunistically appealing to his countrymen’s worst instincts, or the desires of the Hungarian people were beneath consideration – or both.
There is an unspoken argument here that goes beyond the immediate refugee problem or that other threat to EU unity, the future of the eurozone. If democratically mandated national leaders can be condemned for being genuinely in tune with their own electorates, what does this amount to?
....And so was born the new Europe with its megalithic institutions and a philosophy that was (who could doubt it now?) explicitly devised to prevent the impulses of the masses from seizing control over economic, social or military decisions.
We find ourselves joining in without a second thought when an elected head of government is pilloried for reflecting the views of those who elected him as if he were a reincarnation of Hitler or Mussolini when, in fact, he is upholding the EU’s own asylum regulations, which Germany chose unilaterally to suspend.
The question to ponder in regard to the rights of others is:
How can the advocate of universal rights avoid being a moral imperialist?
But that is just the mob with its ancient hatreds and bloodthirsty prejudices is how the media view Hungarian protest to how immigration is best approached.
The obvious implication on the broadcast news was that this rise in approval within his own country was somehow indecent: a crass populist stance targeted deliberately at a benighted population. Either Mr Orban was a nasty piece of work who was opportunistically appealing to his countrymen’s worst instincts, or the desires of the Hungarian people were beneath consideration – or both.
There is an unspoken argument here that goes beyond the immediate refugee problem or that other threat to EU unity, the future of the eurozone. If democratically mandated national leaders can be condemned for being genuinely in tune with their own electorates, what does this amount to?
....And so was born the new Europe with its megalithic institutions and a philosophy that was (who could doubt it now?) explicitly devised to prevent the impulses of the masses from seizing control over economic, social or military decisions.
We find ourselves joining in without a second thought when an elected head of government is pilloried for reflecting the views of those who elected him as if he were a reincarnation of Hitler or Mussolini when, in fact, he is upholding the EU’s own asylum regulations, which Germany chose unilaterally to suspend.
The question to ponder in regard to the rights of others is:
How can the advocate of universal rights avoid being a moral imperialist?
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