Nah - there are inherent moral intuitions in humans. Even gross abuse of political power has a footing in something real. The Founders played this great Deist

Nah - there are inherent moral intuitions in humans. Even gross abuse of political power has a footing in something real. The Founders played this great Deist trick of the light - they appealed to a nonspecific $PROVENANCE as a sort of sum of all the good, without the smiting and the killing and the glaivin. I think the real problem began with the Romantics, who were generally out of their depth. To the extent that this informed the French Revolution... so we have Burke, who take a sober look at it all and says some very intelligent things about it.