I very much enjoyed Hitchens' writing. My only complaint was that he was sometimes overly moralistic (a bit ironic given his worldview). His attacks on Falwell (who I didn't particularly care for) were a bit overstated, for example.
Further, he couldn't really provide a rational framework for where this sense of morality was derived. Universal appeals to fairness and justice only work with people who have an innate sense of that. If you look around much of the world, that doesn't seem to be shared by all.
I very much enjoyed Hitchens' writing. My only complaint was that he was sometimes overly moralistic (a bit ironic given his worldview). His attacks on Falwell (who I didn't particularly care for) were a bit overstated, for example.
ReplyDeleteFurther, he couldn't really provide a rational framework for where this sense of morality was derived. Universal appeals to fairness and justice only work with people who have an innate sense of that. If you look around much of the world, that doesn't seem to be shared by all.