|
Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Liberalism's best selling point was the moral argument noted early in the piece.
But we're in a post-morality world. Pragmatism, empirical data, and rationality rule among the smarter sets of us.
For good reason. Morality's too vague, too subjective. It can't be measured or easily agreed upon by smart people, and is too easily used by dumb people to persecute others.
Modern liberals seem to have employed noblesse oblige where they once argued for "moral" concepts.
|
I don't know what any of this means, and I'm pretty sure you don't either.
__________________
“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
|
