Jennifer Horgan: Why moral clarity won’t bring peace — the case for radical acceptance

In a polarised world, real peace may demand uncomfortable empathy — even toward those we’d rather condemn outright

A Palestine protest outside Leinster House on Wednesday brandishing the Iranian flag. We need a kind of ‘moral blindness’ if we are to survive as a species. In the most extreme cases, we must all become temporarily and wilfully ‘blind’ to right and wrong. Photo: Sam Boal/Collins Photos

I’d like to thank Terry Prone for her respectful disagreement with my column on Botox last week. Someone respectfully disagreeing means a lot. In a world of noise and distraction it is a considerable honour.

I had a less public disagreement with another of my columns a few weeks back - a letter that came through my door. When I read it first, I felt wounded. Then I re-read it. Like the articulate and always insightful Terry Prone, the reader simply had a different take – an intelligent and considered one.