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Please somebody help me understand the meaning of this text
ambiguity is not moral equivalence. A continuum is not a slope. Evil is a word. That Baker’s mature and searching study should be met with such hostility is not merely unfortunate; ...
these sentences seem having no relation, what they want to say?
 

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Hi everyone
Please somebody help me understand the meaning of this text
ambiguity is not moral equivalence. A continuum is not a slope. Evil is a word. That Baker’s mature and searching study should be met with such hostility is not merely unfortunate; ...
these sentences seem having no relation, what they want to say?

I can see no connection between them at all. I can only assume that the first 3 sentences are all contained in "Baker's mature and searching study". We are not told what that study was, or what other conclusions he came to.
 

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I can see no connection between them at all. I can only assume that the first 3 sentences are all contained in "Baker's mature and searching study". We are not told what that study was, or what other conclusions he came to.
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Early in Human Smoke, Baker quotes diary entries that reveal how he relished his friendship with Hitler in a manner that recalls the pining of fatherless child. Later, in 1941, Goebbels would write: “the world war is here, and the annihilation of the Jews must be a necessary consequence.” Is this disputed? Certainly not by Nicholson Baker.
Moral ambiguity is not moral equivalence. A continuum is not a slope. Evil is a word. That Baker’s mature and searching study should be met with such hostility is not merely unfortunate; it betrays an acute apprehension that in turn masks a deeper need for assurance. Scored in the human condition is a marrow-deep craving for the solace of a Manichean duality that never existed, and never will. To slake this need, a story is repeated, rhetorical snares are set. A refuge is erected. Those who are troubled are given cover.
 
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