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That inherently arbitrary logic can be wielded against any regulation or ideology. Nearly every policy disadvantages some person or group's preferences/freedom
by drak0n1c 3y ago
That inherently arbitrary logic can be wielded against any regulation or ideology. Nearly every policy disadvantages some person or group's preferences/freedom to purportedly better enable a greater good.
This slippery slope reasoning would not only apply to your chosen target of "modern conservatism" but to anything under most ideologies and religions. As long as their implementation attempts probabilistically/historically led to a form of intolerance, suppression, and atrocity. Is Bernie Sanders also deserving of our intolerance because of the history of intolerance under socialism?
- howinteresting 3y ago[flagged]
- deadbeeves 3y ago>And we use evidence to figure out who's right. I believe very firmly in objective reality and I think moral relativism is bad. Are you saying morality is a physical magnitude that can be studied and/or measured? Because if we can't then I don't see how objective reality relates to morality. I would think morality exists only in the minds of people and is therefore not objective, even if it's possible to agree that some universals exist.
- howinteresting 3y ago> Are you saying morality is a physical magnitude that can be studied and/or measured? No. > Because if we can't then I don't see how objective reality relates to morality. Try seeing harder.
- travisjungroth 3y agoYou’re bouncing back and forth between “all” and “nearly all”. Some reasoning applying as criticism to a wide array of most ideologies and religions doesn’t disprove it. If anything, it seems like a positive heuristic.