"It is regrettable that the report fails to recognise the profound difference between Israel's moral behaviour during Operation Protective Edge and the terror organisations it confronted".
Questioning the reasons being bandied about by pundits, Williams wrote: "I wasn't convinced by nihilism as a reading: how can you cease to believe in law and order, a moral universe, co-operation, the purpose of existence, and yet still believe in sportswear?
By 5pm on Monday, as I was listening to the brave manager of the Lewisham McDonald's describing, incredulously, how he had just seen the windows stoved in, and he didn't think they'd be able to open the next day, I wasn't convinced by nihilism as a reading: how can you cease to believe in law and order, a moral universe, co-operation, the purpose of existence, and yet still believe in sportswear?
There is a critical, moral message implicit in operations that bring us into the heart of hostile territory, one that shows a resolve otherwise absent in wars led by flying robots.
"You should judge this operation in moral terms.
This was a point emphasized by many soldiers who spoke to me — especially soldiers who had followed their own moral compass during the operation and rejected some of the orders given to them at that time.
Hume's understanding of the operation of moral sentiment is not simply a matter of enjoying pleasant and painful feelings of a peculiar kind (T, 3.1.2.4/472).
King credited Thoreau with convincing him that non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as co-operation with good.
For instance, genocide is an evil institution since significant suffering and a loss of social vitality result from its normal and correct operation without moral justification (Card 2010, 237 293).
An interpretivist might further say that, in all cases, certain more specific moral principles control "the operation and effect" of all laws (as the Riggs v. Palmer court famously said, 115 NY 506 (1889)) Similar hypotheses would be germane to cases or institutional practice in general.
