The following student report was submitted by Ambassador League Agent Joshua E. during the 2007-2008 League.
To: Yale Daily News
Dear Editor,
I am writing concerning Aliza Shvarts. According to the dominant worldview in American culture today, Aliza has done nothing wrong. On the contrary: she has, quite appropriately, taken the core ideas of the relativistic worldview to their full conclusions.
When Hitler attempted to exterminate the Jewish Race, his motivations were anything but arbitrary; he simply took the ideas of Darwinism and eugenics to their necessary ends. Relativistically, he did what was right because he viewed it as such. It would be capricious to assume that there is a yawning gulf between the Auschwitz gas chambers and Shvarts's bathtub. Why do we look down on Hitler? What if I find his whole scheme rather artistic? I do not buy the "overly extreme argument"; Hitler and Shvarts differ in degree, nothing more.
Shvarts's project was intended to dispel the notion of normative body functions. This philosophy extends to every branch of society, as everything customary is brought under scrutiny. Why can we not walk around naked? Why are pedophiles denied access to children? Why can children not sue their parents?
Shvarts argued that uteruses are not "meant" to birth children. She makes me wonder if brains are "meant" to think.
Joshua E.
