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I find this post pretty interesting for a couple reasons. First, doing a quick wikipedia search tells me that he is a law professor at Santa Clara University (
by physcab 18y ago
I find this post pretty interesting for a couple reasons.
First, doing a quick wikipedia search tells me that he is a law professor at Santa Clara University (where I went to undergrad) which is a Roman Catholic Jesuit institution. He is an atheist.
Second, he's basically arguing that the common slogan that people working for social justice often say "if you want peace, work for justice" is rather..hmm..presumptuous?
I haven't read any of his books, but it seems like such a radical position. I wonder where he gets his beliefs, because certainly the institution that he works at is exemplary in promoting compromise...especially when it comes to religious thought.
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- byrneseyeview 18y agoIt doesn't seem very radical at all. It seems like the slogan he's attacking is thoughtlessly radical, since it amounts to saying "Be an absolutist; if you can't find common ground, your opposition must be neutralized or destroyed." Is it really radical to say that this is not a healthy view?