A well-crafted piece on moral equivalence, entitled ”Blunting the Senses in the Name of Fairness”. Snippet:
To recap briefly: Cultural equivalence is evident when Tariq Ramadan depicted those who criticise religious intolerance and intimidation as “extremistsâ€Â, thereby suggesting some parity of derangement between the people who published cartoons of Muhammad, or argued for the right to do so, and the believers who made homicidal threats and set fire to occupied buildings. This echoed Karen Armstrong’s reference to “aggressive†cartoons, published “aggressively†– again, attempting to suggest parity of motive and blame, as if one excused the other or shared the same moral gravity. Perhaps we’re supposed to believe that unflattering cartoons can hurt a person in exactly the same way that, say, fists, bricks and fire do.
Not to mention the shaped explosive IUDs that those Christianists would like to dispense to women who have sex not for procreative purposes.

Once all ideas are judged equal, criticism becomes impossible.
I every time I drop by here the resident patriarchs are going on about violence and sex. It’s making me horny.
Is that bad?