“It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Volume 1, p. 181
The Prophets (1962)
“We have a moral obligation to act and not accept that this [gun violence] is inevitable.”
"Meet the Senator Who Filibustered for 15 Hours on Gun Control" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/meet-the-senator-who-filibustered-for-15-hours-on-gun-control-20160620, RollingStone.com, 20 June 2016.
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Context: Like all "acts of terrorism" (easily and unsubjectively defined as organised violence against civilians), September 11 was an attack on morality: we felt a general deficit. Who, on September 10, was expecting by Christmastime to be reading unscandalised editorials in the Herald Tribune about the pros and cons of using torture on captured "enemy combatants"? Who expected Britain to renounce the doctrine of nuclear no-first-use? Terrorism undermines morality. Then, too, it undermines reason. … No, you wouldn't expect such a massive world-historical jolt, which will reverberate for centuries, to be effortlessly absorbed. But the suspicion remains that America is not behaving rationally — that America is behaving like someone still in shock.
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"Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Chris Murphy" http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/full-transcript-glenn-thrush-chris-murphy, Politico, 8 August 2016.
“No moral code is right, correct, true. That's nihilism. And we have to accept it.”
Alexander Rosenberg (1946) American philosopher
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Context: Scientism starts with the idea that the physical facts fix all the facts, including the biological ones. These in turn have to fix the human facts—the facts about us, our psychology, and our morality. After all, we are biological creatures, the result of a biological process that Darwin discovered but that the physical facts ordained. As we have just seen, the biological facts can't guarantee that our core morality (or any other one, for that matter) is the right, true, or correct one. If the biological facts can't do it, then nothing can. No moral code is right, correct, true. That's nihilism. And we have to accept it.
Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn (1813–1896) British judge
Smith v. Hughes (1871), L. R. 6 Q. B. 607.
