World Opinion is Worthless

clipped from www.jewishworldreview.com If you are ever morally confused about a major world issue, here is a rule that is almost never violated: Whenever you hear that “world opinion” holds a view, assume it is morally wrong. And here is a related rule if your religious or national or ethnic group ever suffers horrific persecution: “World opinion” will never do a thing for you. Never. “World opinion” has little or nothing to say about the world’s greatest evils and regularly condemns those who fight evil. The history of “world opinion” regarding the greatest mass murders and cruelties on the planet is one of relentless apathy. Ask the 1.5 million Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Turks; Ask any of these poor souls, or the hundreds of millions of others slaughtered, tortured, raped and enslaved in the last 100 years, if “world opinion” did anything for them.

I do so love the commentary of Dennis Prager.

“The moment one recognizes “world opinion” for what it is — a statement of moral cowardice, one is longer enthralled by the term. That “world opinion” at this moment allegedly loathes America and Israel is a badge of honor to be worn proudly by those countries. It is when “world opinion” and its news media start liking you that you should wonder if you’ve lost your way. ”

No Plunder

” More importantly, being touched tragically by that disease gives me no moral claim to have Congress, in my name, take resources from other people. I can, and do, ask people to voluntarily fund IPF research. I cannot, and will not, support any effort to force them to do so. “

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux

clipped from cafehayek.typepad.com Dear Sir or Madam: I received your e-mail encouraging me to ask my representatives in Congress to vote for H.R. 6567, which would “increase federal research funding for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.” Even though in March IPF killed my dear mother, I cannot join your crusade for more taxpayer funding to fight this horrible disease.� Congress does not conjure resources from thin air; any resources devoted to finding a cure for IPF must be taken from some other use – and there’s no reason to suppose that Congress can judge better than private individuals how best to use resources.� Who’s to say that resources taken by government from the private sector to support IPF research would not yield even greater long-term benefits by being left in the private sector? Perhaps resources devoted to IPF research would otherwise have been used to cure leukemia or to develop an automobile engine powered by water.