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Entry: The "Lies" of Pope Pius XII Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_lies_of_pope_pius_xii#30972 Post contents: Well, we could just apply real, old-fashioned paleocon non-universalist morality: Gentiles have less obligations to Jews, who are members of an out-group. And we should always favor the in-group. For Gentiles to save Jews might lead people to attribute value to human beings as such instead of to specific peoples constituted by particular historical conditions. Then there's the "dangerous precedent" -- if we protect Jews today, tomorrow we might be defending those flaming liberals on the Underground Railroad (those Yankee abolitionist so-and-sos! if only Longstreet had . . .). We might also empathize with Bosniak Moslems being run out of their villages and shot, even if we don't justify military intervention on their behalf (but that's coming). All this talk of protecting members of an out-group, frankly, smacks of illegitimate, Enlightenment-era, universalistic morality. And you call yourself a paleocon!? (For the dense among you, this is called IRONY and SARCASM. And yes, I think that an easy disregard for natural law and common humanity plagues paleoconservative thinking on "universalism.") Sent at: 2008 12 02