When politicians start invoking morality alarm bells should start ringing, especially when they talk of "broken societies" and "social recession" as David Cameron did yesterday.
He was speaking of the horrific attacks on two little boys by two other youngsters, and of course it brought to mind Tony Blair's comments nearly twenty years ago of Britain being in a "moral vacuum", and look where that led us.
An illegal, unjustified, and ultimately devastating war in Iraq because of a sense of moral superiority.
I am afraid that should Cameron be successful in becoming PM he would resort to the same "moral certainties" that Blair used to justify his more dubious decisions.
This is not in anyway to condone or minimise the traumatic attack carried out in Doncaster last year, but rather to eschew impotent hand-wringing or seeking vengeful retribution.
In fact, to reverse what the last Tory PM John Major said, namely that we should condemn less and try to understand more, and having understood take steps to see such, thankfully rare, behaviour does not occur again.
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