YoungAchamian
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natural-law conservatism
The initial section lauding natural-law as a fundamental building block of an ideal society was great. But then it immediately tried to smuggle the assertion that natural law can be revealed through theological text rather than discovered through interaction with reality. This is a bad trick attempting to smuggle credibility from natural-law into religion. It smuggles an ontological claim “there are objective structures of human flourishing” into a doctrinal one “those structures are what our religion already says”. It's sophistic.
If this passes for a serious intellectual political system then its a bad joke. Worse its a bad joke that was already tried and was specifically repudiated during the Enlightenment because it did not work. This is right version of the Marxists: "No true natural-law conservatism has ever been tried". The tragedy is that Conservatives could do that using the Enlightenment version of natural law, but that version requires trusting human reason more than faith, and modern religious conservatives of this variety are pathologically incapable of accepting classical liberalism.
EDIT: Not attributing any of this to you. Reading that article left me with a very strong opinion/urge to object.
YoungAchamian
22d ago
Now, now don’t get your horses in a bunch.
YoungAchamian
22d ago
It's water under the bus.
YoungAchamian
23d ago
thinking that they're going to get game theory to do their work for them. I've noted before that most of these attempts misunderstand the basics of game theory, and you can see by their actions that the Wokists actually understand some elements of game theory better than their opposing sect.
Can you explain this claim a bit more. It is not self evident to me what specific basics the anti-woke atheists are missing nor what elements the Wokies get better.
I think the implication is that they arrive and marry Muslim men, have Muslim kids and engage in demographic replacement of the native western population.
A real monkey's paw.
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