I think where you, Huemer and probably most of the readers (including me) agree is that we probably shouldn't be prescribing how people live their personal lives, in *any* direction. There are, essentially, two sorts of social conservatism and two sorts of social liberalism.
I think where you, Huemer and probably most of the readers (including me) agree is that we probably shouldn't be prescribing how people live their personal lives, in *any* direction. There are, essentially, two sorts of social conservatism and two sorts of social liberalism.
Conservatism has:
- a prescriptive branch, that tries to force people into old social norms, and in its most extreme form is a kind of "back to the 1950s"
- a live-and-let-live branch, which tries to absorb diversity into the old structures (eg by promoting gay marriage as opposed to queer polycules)
Liberalism has:
- a live-and-let-live branch (which isn't really that different from the conservative version above, maybe there are more differences on things like immigration)
- a prescriptive branch, that wants to push everyone into nonconformism (which, of course, is nothing of the sort, it's just conformism to a different set of norms).
We're all live-and-let-live folk here, right? As stated above, it's difficult to slot us into the culture-war binary, we could be parsed as either conservative or liberal. Maybe we should just get away from thinking rigidly along this axis? (Ooh look, we discovered a spectrum rather than sticking to a rigid binary, the woke brigade will be all over that!)
A truly live and let live world would consist of a significant percentage of the country shitting themselves on the streets on fentanyl or squirreled away at home playing video games and watching porn all day.
I think where you, Huemer and probably most of the readers (including me) agree is that we probably shouldn't be prescribing how people live their personal lives, in *any* direction. There are, essentially, two sorts of social conservatism and two sorts of social liberalism.
Conservatism has:
- a prescriptive branch, that tries to force people into old social norms, and in its most extreme form is a kind of "back to the 1950s"
- a live-and-let-live branch, which tries to absorb diversity into the old structures (eg by promoting gay marriage as opposed to queer polycules)
Liberalism has:
- a live-and-let-live branch (which isn't really that different from the conservative version above, maybe there are more differences on things like immigration)
- a prescriptive branch, that wants to push everyone into nonconformism (which, of course, is nothing of the sort, it's just conformism to a different set of norms).
We're all live-and-let-live folk here, right? As stated above, it's difficult to slot us into the culture-war binary, we could be parsed as either conservative or liberal. Maybe we should just get away from thinking rigidly along this axis? (Ooh look, we discovered a spectrum rather than sticking to a rigid binary, the woke brigade will be all over that!)
A truly live and let live world would consist of a significant percentage of the country shitting themselves on the streets on fentanyl or squirreled away at home playing video games and watching porn all day.
Citation needed, no? Many people could do this but don't.
Marijuana use has gone up a ton since it was legalized. What do you think would happen if we legalized all opiates?
I want to raise my kids to not suffer those vices but is it odd that I’m not scared of people who waste their lives in such ways?