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Indignation conditioned by moral relativity

Jan 15, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The position of PPP leaders and pundits on the situation in Gaza Palestine is completely at odds with the positions they take in Guyana.
How many times have we heard citizens complain about being innocent victims of the excesses of military and paramilitary anti-crime operations in Guyana, only to hear the Minister of Home Affairs, or even the President, respond with statements that those people are criminals, or wave away protests with the excuse that some collateral damage is inevitable in crime fighting?
Pray tell, what is so different, other than in the scope of the operation, in the Israel military rampaging over the lives of the innocent in the Gaza in pursuit of what they perceive to be the guilty, and the Guyana military and paramilitary being applauded for doing the same thing at home?
These blatant displays of moral relativity say a lot about what the current regime think about the attention span of Guyanese.
I have said this before and I will say it again. Based on the public positions of leaders and pundits of the PPP whether collateral damage is acceptable, in terms of innocents becoming victims in state approved military and paramilitary operations, depends primarily on the ethnicity and politics of those victims. Literally tens of thousands have been killed in Dafur Sudan, and millions more ethnically cleansed from their traditional living environment, with nary a peep from the quarters up in arms against the horror that is happening in Gaza Palestine today.
There is a saying that “one mans terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”. I disagree most vehemently with this conclusion, because nothing will justify attacks on the innocent when in pursuit of bad guys. What I am more and more being persuaded to recognise is that for many in Guyana the worth of human lives, the humanity of the individual or the group, is determined mostly by the incidental position they occupy on the continuum of race, ethnicity and politics.
Robin Williams

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