At what level does doing something bad become doing something good?

A little philosophical conundrum for a Friday. We all like that (??)

Do we torture terrorists to get information that could prevent hundreds of innocent people being murdered? Do we engage in wars in which the ‘good guys’ bomb entire fucking cities to the ground along with all the poor unfortunates who once lived there? Do we run Arsenal fans over at a crossing to prevent them from ever being smug again?

Deep questions. There is no right, there is no wrong, there just is. Its all relative. I may gain personally by an act, but someone else will lose. Like using your credit card number to book my flights on. Sorry about that.

Thus it becomes about a ‘greater good’. We bombed the shit out of Dresden in the war to save the world from Hitler. Ok, some did it just for fun, others because they have a thing about Germans, then and now, but generally these acts are seen as for a greater good, or as a lesser evil. Its all relative to your viewpoint.

And so Boris. And Michael Gove. Neither of whom can really be described as a lesser evil to virtually anyone, other than perhaps Jeremy Corbyn. So they act in ways of ‘dubious morality’ to say the least. That they would argue is for some long-term greater good.

If Boris supports Brexit, even though he’s a lifelong Europhile, then tells a whole heap of lies in order to win the referendum, is that not for ‘the greater good’ if it means he’ll end up as Prime Minister and is undoubtedly (in his mind) the absolute best person for that job in the entire world? I thought that to be the case until yesterday morning. Not that Boris was the best man for any job, but that HE thought so. Vain, arrogant opportunist that he is.

And Michael Gove. Michael “I have no intention whatsoever of becoming PM” (2 days before), fucking Gove! Then he declares Boris unfit to lead a troupe of girl guides, let alone a nation, and decides to stand himself. For the role he didn’t want 2 days previously. He’d had a revelation. A ‘eureka moment’. God spoke to him directly. In Aramaic. Who knows. One minute he’s Boris’s ‘campaign manager’ then next he’s walked over Boris after knifing him in the back.

The only odd thing in the total moral vacuum that is what’s left of the government, is that Boris just accepted it. Didn’t fight, didn’t protest, didn’t shout ‘Judas!’, nothing. Just said, ‘ok, I won’t stand’.

They have dirt on Boris. Its the only explanation. There is a skeleton in Boris’s closet so big, so Greville Janner, so serially shaggish, so joined the Hitler Youth aged 7, so crucifyingly, career-shatteringly massive, that he had no choice but just roll over.

The question that remains is: SO HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO PLACE OUR COLLECTIVE TRUST IN THESE MURDEROUS, CONNIVING, DEVIOUS, BACK-STABBING, HYPOCRITICAL BASTARDS????

Theresa May must be laughing her whiter-than-white head off. She stays well under the parapet.

Happy devious Friday

A xxxx