POLITICAL LANGUAGE: Defending the indefensible by sugar-coating killing*

It is a basic truth that those engaged in evil will try to lie about it, or seek to cover it up with innocuous-sounding euphemisms. Sure, many are quite bold and forthright about their evil, and don’t even seek to make excuses for it or try to make it sound other than what it is. There is of course a third category here: those who actually think their evil is just fine. As the American Catholic philosopher Edward Feser once wrote: “A man who knows that what he does is evil but does …

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