The Mystique Of Moral Overkill

The Mystique of Moral OverkillThe question is: Are we going to put some of the "bunk" back? After a long fight against dangerously overinflated or fake values, stultifying conventions, ready-to-wear opinions, blinkers and illusions; after a brave struggle against all kinds of iron chastity belts wrapped around our minds, are we now reaching the point where debunking has become overdebunking—a kind of moral, political, ideological overkill, with the result that our search for "trut...