“Situational ethicists”.
Gee, you certainly nailed that. It’s been a long time, but that IS the term. You should do a vanity on the subject. I hope I can recall the term in the future as it saves a lot of ‘splainin’ and cussin’. &)
The problem is that no one wants to ‘offend’ their BFFs that practice situational ethics (SE).
I think SE is fairly obvious to us all, it’s just that he use different same for it. Hypocracy ect. But few want to use those words either because we in the right are every bit as bad about being ‘offended’ as the open left.
Yesterday a couple of us had an envounter on another thread with one of those types. He is a longtime opponent of building a real border fence. There is always an excuse, a reason that we just ‘can’t’ build one although this person claims that were it up to him he’d mine the border. Seems pretty situational to me.
Later, he was caught red handed posting ‘official border patrol figures’. Straight from a pro amnesty website. This person was ‘righteously’ miffed because his ‘honor’ was questioned.
Well, it was what it was. A stunning example of situational ethics. Hypocrisy. Flat out manipulation to serve his agenda. What else do you call posting massaged data from left wing sites as fact? He opposes a real fence and backs a candidate that also opposes a real fence, ergo he was going to ‘win’ his argument one way or another. And damn the truth, full speed ahead.
We see that time and time and time and time and time and time again across the right. Everyone is for secure borders except when actually securing the border. Everyone is a staunch rock ribbed conservative stalwart except when pimping hard left RINOs for GOP office. Everyone wants the ISSA investigations to go somewhere, but a few years isn’t enough for a result, we just need to give them more time.
And dear God in heaven, if you question any of that you are an evil purist that loves Obama and hates America.
No we are just fine. The problem, as demonstrated, lies in situational ethics as currently practiced by many on the right. And the willingness of many of us to just pretend it is not what it clearly is.