BLAME LIBERAL 'WIMPATHY' FOR RISE OF 'ANYTHING GOES,' DEMISE OF CIVIL SOCIETY

"Wimpathy." I wish I'd thought of that one. It's syndicated columnist Ellen
Goodman's term ("Feeling sorry for bombastic Limbaugh is the curse of
liberal wimpathy," Oct. 16) for how a liberal deals with transgressions
against society: by being a wimp with empathy. And she's so right.

Liberals have developed so much empathy that they have become wimps about
distinguishing right from wrong. By being so focused on feeling someone's
pain, they think it better to abolish the distinction between right and
wrong, calling it tolerance, than to put people through distress.

Conservatives, religious or not, think it's better to have and reinforce
social norms by holding people up to judgment, but to offer redemption
through confession and repentance.

Love the sinner, hate the sin. Too much tolerance becomes "anything goes,"
and what goes is civil society.

SHAWN FORBES

Statesboro