War protests help terrorists
On Sept. 11, over 5,000 innocent people were murdered by terrorists who hate everything America and the West stand for: Reason, life, liberty, prosperity and the earthly pursuit of happiness. We are presently being terrorized in a vicious attempt to murder more innocent people via anthrax. (And who knows what’s next?)
If this isn’t evil, then what is evil? Nothing — according to one of today’s leading postmodernist professors, Stanley Fish, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In a New York Times column from Oct. 15, Fish writes, ” … There can be no independent standard for determining which of many rival interpretations of an event is the true one.” He argues further that there are no objective standards to judge an action as good or evil; it’s totally subjective, hence relative. On this logic, calling the Holocaust evil is no more valid than calling it good.
Thanks to countless postmodernist professors like Fish, moral relativism is rampant in today’s so-called institutes of higher learning, where many students are currently protesting America’s war on terrorism. Such protests will weaken America’s resolve in winning the war on terrorism, thereby helping the terrorists. While the U.S. military destroys the terrorists and their sponsors, the rest of us should protest the protesters and their relativist professors.
Glenn Woiceshyn
Calgary, Alberta
A new kind of terrorist
I see that several abortion providers across the nation have received mail recently containing a “mysterious white powder.” Perhaps those wacky anti-abortionists have taken a page from the “bio-terrorist” handbook. Funny, though, I don’t hear any reference to “Christian terrorists.”
Bill Smee
University classified staff
Canada column lacks perspective
The article titled “There’s no hope with dope” (ODE, 10/15) made me smirk and then laugh out loud. I agree with Debenham’s initial depiction of the college experience. But that’s where our agreement ends. If college is for learning how to be free thinkers and a chance to begin taking a more experiential approach to life, how can you justify regurgitating inane “facts” about something you’ve clearly never done?
You’ve successfully wrapped every anti-drug campaign slogan and half-baked rhetoric from the folks on high to construct an article which only points to lack of perspective. I’m not encouraging anyone to do something they object to, but when you say that buying marijuana in Oregon “indirectly support(s) these organizations,” citing the Taliban, you obviously don’t know that Oregon’s number one cash crop is marijuana. (Above even grass seed!) At best you might be supporting a Canadian family farming community. The marijuana trade in the Northwest is such a local economy there’s little hope for Afghani hash even making it here.
So I thank you for bringing a smile to my face and filling in what would have been a rather blank page. Had the author not distilled Nancy Reagan’s eight years as first lady into such a moving piece, I might have had to hear about more of the world’s “arduous” problems, like anthrax and personal privacy violations.
Shane McCloskey
senior
architecture
