"Currants Bw..."

[Niall_Quinn]

The apology:

Well, Australia have consistently been very hard line in their response to this pandemic. One could argue it's worked. They've had 76 deaths per million, we've had 2105 (source, worldometer).

The arse cover:

But as I said above at what cost to liberty, mental health and their economy.

The lie?

[WMUG]

It's called nuance, man.

[Letters]

It's called nuance, man.

Aye. It’s something NQ doesn’t understand.
In his world things are GOOD or BAD and there are no shades of grey in between.

David Mitchell wrote an interesting piece about this in the light of some judge saying that a burglar was brave and then being criticised by everyone from David Cameron down.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...david-mitchell

For some it seems it’s impossible to understand that a thing like burglary is bad but that doesn’t mean that every negative adjective must apply to the person who does it.


https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...david-mitchell

[Letters]

The lie?

That it was an apology.
“Hitler was good at art” isn’t an apology for the things he did.
See?
Come on, dude, it’s not that hard.

Obviously I’ve picked an extreme example there, but a policy can have good and bad aspects to it. One can debate whether one outweighs the other but it’s rare that a policy is 100% good or bad.

[Letters]

Women

Know your place

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59400539

[GP]

Still less a shit show than the shit show that's going on here.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's called nuance, man.

Ah, you mean the nuance of tyranny? I'm sure every tyrant had a thousand reasonable motivations on the way to what even the most unobservant would consider atrocity. We're talking about people being rounded up by the army and put in camps. If you can find nuance in that then you have a rare gift.

[Niall_Quinn]

That it was an apology.
“Hitler was good at art” isn’t an apology for the things he did.
See?
Come on, dude, it’s not that hard.

Obviously I’ve picked an extreme example there, but a policy can have good and bad aspects to it. One can debate whether one outweighs the other but it’s rare that a policy is 100% good or bad.

If you can find a sliver of a counterbalance to evil then you have embraced evil. There's a lot of grey between any given point and a line in the sand. But once that line is crossed, all grey becomes black and white. You may argue the line is arbitrary and subject to individual opinion. I would argue that people have been taken by the army to camps. If you can't see that particular line then you probably don't have a line. There will always be some excuse to keep it grey.

[Niall_Quinn]

Or an apology, if you prefer.

[Niall_Quinn]

Aye. It’s something NQ doesn’t understand.
In his world things are GOOD or BAD and there are no shades of grey in between.

David Mitchell wrote an interesting piece about this in the light of some judge saying that a burglar was brave and then being criticised by everyone from David Cameron down.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...david-mitchell

For some it seems it’s impossible to understand that a thing like burglary is bad but that doesn’t mean that every negative adjective must apply to the person who does it.


https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...david-mitchell

and seriously, what the fuck is that about? Or are you just revelling in that which you crave most of all?