Towards a Value-Free Politics

Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syrian Head-of-State

Value-free politics and diplomacy are the product of a transactional universe. Philippa Foot’s "trolley problem" is tangentially relevant in a Neo-Calvinist way. The ethical thing is not to tamper with reality. If you take a Time Machine into the past don’t ruffle any feathers for fear of creating a monster. If you let the train hit the many you have not mucked with destiny. Oddly Retrumplicans and their minions will conclude that it makes no sense to change tracks and do the right thing which is to kill one lonely soul so that the many will survive. Dems remaining starry-eyed and idealistic will favor the means over the ends. Due process would entail, in this case, making the seeming unfair decision of killing the one over the many. Trump is on the way to lifting sanctions from Syria. The Democrats might have been reluctant to deal with the current rebel leader of the country--a former Jihadist. They would have killed the one--as a matter principle when the more humane outcome requires a waffling on ethics.

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