It has provided political cover for the Russians by allowing Putin et.al. to claim moral equivalence.
Equivalence sounds elegant, but the danger is that it will mean more of the same.
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Do you think there is any kind of moral equivalence between the Zionist and anti-Zionist causes?
Moral equivalence between the aggressors and their victims will be the order of the day.
But what seems clear is that experiments to falsify the equivalence principle are going to be complicated.
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When practiced during the Cold War, moral equivalence (between East and West) was a form of moral obtuseness.
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Just as importantly, Bastiat recognized that equivalence was not fixed or even defined.
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We do not have metrics that can determine true equivalence with able-bodied athletes.
No amount of remorseful op.ed. articles will obscure that reality, or mitigate the damage done by his moral equivalence.
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They just fear that Mr Steinmeier wants to bury the fact of Russian aggression in a morass of moral equivalence.
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Do you think there is any kind of moral equivalence between Osama bin Laden and, say, George Bush or Tony Blair?
But none have attacked the administration for agreeing to the false moral equivalence between Iran's nuclear program and Israel's nuclear program.
One would have to agree with Read that the percentage of equivalence errors compared to how many drugs are available is minuscule.
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According to Read, in the last five years the FDA has only had to correct itself on the equivalence of three drugs.
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For all its breadth, the newer law is actually a step away from disability as identity, dodging the question of equivalence among conditions.
The lack of therapeutic equivalence means that, like pioneer manufacturers, FOB manufacturers will have to market their products and negotiate individual contracts with purchasers.
One way is to try and falsify the equivalence principle, to show that the two phenomena of gravitational and inertial mass are not really identical.
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His moral equivalence between Israel and those bent on its destruction.
This is not one of those situations where there's an equivalence.
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We even hear a repetition of the old moral equivalence mantra.
Surely, if Ricardian equivalence can work for the man in the street, it must apply to hyper-rational bond investors who have all the data to hand.
Because we tolerate the views and ideas of others does not mean acquiescence to them or the glib acceptance of the creed of inevitable moral equivalence.
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Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hague said there was no "moral equivalence" between IRA weapons and guns carried by the British Army to protect the community.
In that way, he created an alternate economy based on an equivalence between money and art: the inherent uselessness of both that makes the value of each arbitrary.
'', says Freyn with a sly pun that signals Mr Merrick's extension of Conrad's theme: the equivalence between Cowley's impoverished compu-mind and the soullessness of the imperial project.
As former UN Ambassador Dore Gold wrote in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, Resolution 1860 is drafted in a manner that presumes moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas.
Yes, there is an equivalence between Zionist and anti-Zionist causes.
Fathom argues that the higher the ratio of government debt to GDP, the more likely it is that a stimulus will be ineffective and that Ricardian equivalence will apply.
The resolution also draws a false moral equivalence between Hamas's illegal rocket campaign against Israeli civilians and Israel's assertion of its right to close its borders to enemy traffic.
In exchange for these concessions, the Republicans would limit the increase in the dividend tax rate to 20% in order to maintain its equivalence to the capital gains tax rate.
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