Re: [RC] Do Libertarians Really "Want a World Without Moral Judgments"?

[David R. Block]

I would agree with you on that. Even Jesus had trouble with the "law-keeping" of the Pharisees. David “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”--Thomas Jefferson     On 3/22/2013 12:55 PM, Dr. Ernest Prabhakar wrote: Hi David, On Mar 21, 2013, at 7:13 PM, "David R. Block" <david.r.bl...@verizon.net> wrote: I submit to you that few statements are more wrong than saying "libertarians might want a world without moral judgments." From my vantage point, one of the things to which libertarianism is dedicated is the proliferation of moral judgments by freeing people up to the greatest degree possible to create their own ways of being in the world. To conflate the live and let live ethos at the heart of the classical liberal and libertarian project with an essentially nihilistic dismissal of pluralism and tolerance is a gigantic error. It's like saying that because religious dissenters want to abolish a single state church that they are anti-god. Fair enough. But I do think it would be accurate to say most libertarians want a world where they are not subject to other's moral judgements (and vice versa, up to a point). --- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org   --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radicalcentrism+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.