“we can’t pick and choose the victims we prefer to champion and to mourn over. Not if we want to claim to be moral beings.” In fact we can. There is a lot of discussion today of “whataboutism” — a way of defending one immoral action by pointing out the general acceptance of another immoral action. Most debaters would agree that whataboutism is an invalid form of argument. In other words, we *can* pick and choose which immoral actions we wish to focus on and ignore others.
“we can’t pick and choose the victims we prefer to champion and to mourn over. Not if we want to claim to be moral beings.” In fact we can. There is a lot of discussion today of “whataboutism” — a way of defending one immoral action by pointing out the general acceptance of another immoral action. Most debaters would agree that whataboutism is an invalid form of argument. In other words, we *can* pick and choose which immoral actions we wish to focus on and ignore others.
True, which is why I added "Not if we want to claim to be moral beings"