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Alan Derschowitz worries about torture being hypocritical? What about the hypocrisy of demanding from our schools zero tolerance for violence, while letting our children stare for hours into the 27-inch chamber of horrors cable peep show?
Last year, after the war in Iraq began, a small peace button on my jacket gave deep concern to a customer in a coffee shop line up. He angrily wanted to know why I would support Saddam Hussain. Support Saddam Hussain? I just wanted peace - and a coffee. And why would a peace button be so contentious?
Maybe "peace" and "torture" are not absolute good and evil, anymore. Maybe we've regressed to infants with unsatisfied, amoral urges. And maybe, in an age when many in the civilized world spit with disgust on human rights, teachers should give up teaching their students right from wrong.
The alley is dark. And our children need a guiding light.
The writer is a school principal, teacher, and columnist for the Daily News in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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