A reader points me to this excellent example of Euro-relativism written in response to the London suicide bombings by one Rob Greene:

We have to be careful, as the blood pours down our faces, not to start thinking of 'their evil violence' as opposed to 'our justified violence'. Scary, unsettling and in-your-face suicide action may be, but it is no different, either morally or in terms of the result, from the remote control mayhem the western powers prefer to inflict. The citizens of Baghdad who died as cruise missiles launched many miles away impacted all around them can confirm that. Shock and awe come in different varieties. The suggestion that it's alright for us to kill them but not for them to come and kill us is one that we should knock on the head without delay.

I can honestly say that, much as I don't like the idea of being blasted to kingdom come, I cannot and will not value my own life over that of any other human on the planet. All unnecessary death diminishes us as a species, killing each other pushes us as a species even further down the evolutionary ladder. Not that that is going to be one iota of help if, one day, I find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Sad stuff. It's actually not even relativism, it's defeatism at its best.