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Moral equivalence is a term used in political debate, usually to deny that a moral comparison can be made of two sides in a conflict, or in the actions or tactics of two sides.
The term had some currency in polemic debates about the Cold War. "Moral equivalence" began to be used as a polemic term-of-retort to "moral relativism", which had been gaining use as an indictment against political foreign policy that appeared to use only a situation-based application of widely held ethical standards.
International conflicts are sometimes viewed similarly, and interested parties periodically urge both sides to conduct a ceasefire and negotiate their differences. However these negotiations may prove difficult in that both parties in a conflict believe that they are morally superior to the other, and are unwilling to negotiate on basis of moral equivalence.
Moralequivalence is a term used in political debate, usually to deny that a moral comparison can be made of two sides in a conflict, or in the actions...
False equivalence A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed...
Look up equivalence or equivalent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Equivalence or Equivalent may refer to: Album-equivalent unit, a measurement unit...
promoting moral relativism or moralequivalence, in which the allegedly similar means of both anti-terrorists and terrorists are used to blur the moral differences...
of moral judgment" is "inseparable from any real understanding of the past" and "from being human.": xvi Malia asks "What of the moralequivalence of...
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to "very fine people on both sides", were criticized as implying a moralequivalence between the white supremacist protesters and the counter-protesters...
while The New Yorker described the technique as "a strategy of false moralequivalences". Julia Ioffe called whataboutism a "sacred Russian tactic", and compared...
hit both sides where appropriate, but we're not going for mythic moralequivalence on every issue." In April 2017, Avlon discussed the organization's...
Bernard-Henri Lévy, argue that such comparisons not only lack historical and moralequivalence but also risk inciting anti-Jewish sentiment. Historian Deborah Lipstadt...
older apologetics regarding the Holocaust) that seeks to create a moralequivalence between Soviet atrocities committed against the Baltic region and...
And just as there is no moralequivalence or symmetry between the Holocaust and the occupation, so there is no moralequivalence or symmetry between the...
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book was not more popular because of Seuss' promotion of a theme of "moralequivalence", where the difference between the Soviet Union and the United States...
follows what Wollstonecraft recommended in her novel Mary, while the moralequivalence Austen drew in Mansfield Park between slavery and the treatment of...
writer David Irving—use the bombing in an attempt to establish a moralequivalence between the war crimes committed by the Nazi government and the killing...
Charlottesville, Virginia, that were seen by critics as implying moralequivalence between the white supremacist marchers and those who protested against...
Jews that they killed in the Holocaust, a "breathtaking" exercise in moralequivalence.: 158 In early 1951 the Bavarian parliament passed a resolution declaring...
revisionism, while journalist Michael C. Moynihan accused the book of "moralequivalence" and said nothing within the book was "untold" previously. Stone defended...
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the report, "there is no factual basis for arguing that there is a 'moralequivalence' between the warring factions". Beginning in 1991, political upheavals...
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efforts to institutionalize the victims of communism narrative, or the moralequivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and the victims of communism...
is hate". Sigrid Rausing wrote in the New Statesman: "The claim of moralequivalence is dangerous, not because it exaggerates the horror of Gaza (the reality...
warfare out of context. Kershaw further protested the implication of moralequivalence between a remark by Tucholsky and the actual gassing of Jews by Nazis...
2023. Irwin, Lauren (October 28, 2023). "DeSantis says there's no 'moralequivalence' between Israel, Hamas". The Hill. Archived from the original on October...