I find great interest in reading the letters by several students in today's Collegian, most notably the small collection of students who can't seem to understand why anyone could have a problem with the 2008 Olympics being held in China. I find it interesting that I find side-by-side letters, which argue that the situation in China really isn't so bad. And second, if it is, we have no right to be any sort of moral judge (to do so would be to have a "hegemonic attitude").

Sidestepping the fact that China, to this day, continue to commit human rights violations on an enormous scale, I'd like to pose a few questions to those who engage in such broad moral relativism that they can assert China's constant attack on liberty as simply "different": Was post-abolition America simply "different" than when slavery was allowed?

Did hundreds of thousands of Americans die needlessly fighting fascism abroad in WWII, or was Nazism just different strokes for different folks? Is South Africa today better, worse or just "different" than when the country was under apartheid?