Little Hawk, a lot of what I posted above are from essays on ethics. I am not accusing you of these things, I put those essay excerpts there as a reminder of a lot of things that need thinking about from time to time. Including by me.

And I am not trying to make you the target of any argument.

As to the matter of judging the action, not the person, I can most certainly judge what a person advocates, even though they may not have taken action on it—yet. If someone advocates something that I consider unethical, I have a moral obligation to speak out against it. I do not have the right to muzzle him or lock him up. But I most certainly have the right to express my opinion. And endeavor to stop him before he translates what he advocates into action or manages to talk other people into doing it.

And that includes telling someone who has shown all the signs of being a flaming bigot that that is what he seems to be exhibiting, and telling him why I think so. There is even the outside chance in such situations that the person might take it to heart and do some soul-searching. As I have suggested a few people here might do.

I most certainly hope that you are not a silly, unrealistic morally agnostic prat, but if you do not wish to be regarded as one, it would really help if you would stop sounding like one.

Don Firth