Day 595
Dangers of moral equivalency
I’m not convinced it’s a great idea, at least PR-wise, to conflate the two bloody disasters. That said, we can all agree evil is bad and hate hypocrisy and lying at the same time.
We shall have to fight and die and pay and suffer with the grim knowledge that we are sacrificing ourselves in an insane cause, and that only by putting up a particularly good fight can we bring ourselves out of it with credit. […] For the present time there is only one thing to be done besides fighting … and that one thing is to set to work immediately to draft the inevitable Treaty of Peace which we must all sign when we have had our bellyful of murder and destruction. (Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd, 448).
