Q&A: The Hostages and Morality
The Hostages and Morality
Question
Do you think that a public official is forbidden to oppose a hostage deal because he abandoned them in the first place? https://telem.berl.org.il/12069/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=cpc_gecko&utm_campaign=noquestion&twclid=25e14dkys1g6nxylopyk4kxb2v And according to what they write there, that most philosophers support a hostage deal because the moral thing is to bring them back, does that mean, according to what you wrote, that for those people too philosophy is really emotion?
Answer
I read this a long time ago. Tendentious nonsense.
If, in his view, a hostage deal is bad for Israel, then it is the duty of every person to oppose it.
I don’t know how to determine this categorically. But it’s clear that among many supporters of the deal there is an emotional bias.