When practiced during the Cold War, moral equivalence (between East and West) was a form of moral obtuseness.

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The cable industry's fight to prevent phone companies from delivering TV service to customers is but the latest example of this deadly obtuseness.

FORBES: No Shame

Wilner was then a few years out of school and filled with a young man's wonder at the obtuseness of an older generation's received wisdom.

FORBES: The Frame Game

Talk about obtuseness and shortsightedness.

FORBES: PHONY NUMBER

Given the not-so-distant experience of Vietnam, it is a testament to your obtuseness, not to mention your American-induced hubris, that you continue to support this fiasco, and will only come to recognise (if not admit) your mistake long after the lessons and consequences are writ large for all to see.

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