Wickedness requires open, clear accurate characterization to identify it, to alert to public to its presence, to identify its perpetrators, to draft a counter-attack upon it, and then the will, courage and energy to launch the counter-attack to stem its spread, to limit its damage, to protect society.
Though I am a moderate about the possibility of knowing final answers, and absolute moral truths, I feel that abstractions characterizing the results of investigating people and occurrences can allow the investigators to reach honest, impartial conclusions that stick, highly probable enough to bring to bear and objective moral code that society can live by, and for perpetrators, especially if criminal, to be punished by.
Much relativism is not honesty, tolerance and libertarian live-and-let livism--rather it is indifference, cowardice, weakness, selfishness and even silent partnership in support of the evildoers.
Wickedness will not go unpunished by good people in this world, and by God in this world and in the next.
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