# 47. Manipulation of Morality ## 47.5 Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species ### 47.5.2. Moral Relativism This method of moral manipulation uses the equivocation of morality with the implication that there is no such thing as right and wrong or good and evil. The argument plays to the advantage of regimes that desire to steal, kill, and violate the rights of people without being questioned and without consequences. The technique is used mostly by governments, according to their imperatives at a particular moment. For instance, Tony Blair oscillated between being highly pragmatic and relativist whilst sending troops to attack Iraq to stop "the deployment of weapons of mass destruction", the threat that he himself had invented together with George Bush. He did this against a background of moralistic Christianised babble about human rights, democracy and freedom. His behaviour was truly medieval in style; a cross in one hand and the sword in the other. The combination of the establishment Christian leader promoting a holy war as a last resort against an evil Islamic monster dictator played well to a historically ignorant, generally apathetic and ill-informed British public. The same arguments can be equally applied to George W. Bush of course. The only difference is that Blair pretended Catholicism and Bush used Christian fundamentalism. Both used religion as a tool to justify their actions to the greater world rather than as a moral source for their actions. Such behaviour is typical of a psychopathic character where morality plays only a passing role as a tool in the achievement of "darker" objectives. In the wrong hands, moral relativism is a way of reversing or discrediting instinctive humanistic moral attitudes and it is implicitly evil in the sense that it darkly calls upon us to abandon human solidarity, good will and charity. We can legitimately argue about our moralities, but we cannot deny that we are, in some sense, moral creatures in general. The assertion that Iraq actually had weapons of "mass-destruction" was truly psychopathic, as indeed were and are Tony Blair and his co-conspirators