Re:Legalize It All
by dcposch on Saturday March 26, 2016 @05:20PM
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> This is an innate aspect of society. See: murder, sexual assault, etc
No, those rules are about protecting me from my neighbor. They're perfectly reasonable, both as timeless moral norms and as law.
The problems begin when I want to control my neighbor's behavior in ways that have nothing to do with protection. If I feel the need, for example, to prohibit him from having a gay relationship because it's against my religion. Or telling him that smoking one plant is fine, but if he smokes a different kind of plant I'll call men with guns over to his house to stop him.
No, those rules are about protecting me from my neighbor. They're perfectly reasonable, both as timeless moral norms and as law.
The problems begin when I want to control my neighbor's behavior in ways that have nothing to do with protection. If I feel the need, for example, to prohibit him from having a gay relationship because it's against my religion. Or telling him that smoking one plant is fine, but if he smokes a different kind of plant I'll call men with guns over to his house to stop him.
That is what I mean by moral authoriarianism.