Quoth Brian Holtz: ----- Almost all of political ethics is in effect defined by edge cases. -----
It does not follow from the fact that almost all political ethicists define their proposed systems on the basis of edge cases that edge cases are the proper tools for defining a correct political ethos. ----- There aren't really any interesting ethical dilemmas on the playground at my four-year-old's daycare center. ----- Your four-year-old must attend one king-hell boring daycare center, then. ----- The central mistake of anarcholibertarianism is believing that sandbox morality completely generalizes to the grown-up world of how humans behave in groups ----- The central mistake of _any_ political philosophy _may_ be believing that a large set of moral lessons which can be drawn from the interactions of _any_ particular group will easily generalize to _all_ groups. Even if that's the case, however, I reject the notion that settling an "edge case" necessarily supports a similar approach to routine problems. Or, to put it a different way, I reject the notion that "trolley problem" necessarily deterministically decompresses into "to the extent that private charity fails to provide a safety net of sustenance and shelter for fellow community members facing death due to indigence or misfortune, then the state should finance such a safety net through a uniform system of marginal taxation on resource use, negative externalities, and land value, as decided under the rule of law by a maximally-decentralized democratic federal constitutional republic." Tom Knapp
