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>
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Of course, liberals are never guilty of knowing what's right for
> > >everyone else. :-)
> > >
> > >Ian
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Sure we do. I, in particular, know exactly what is right for everyone.
>As I
> > once explained to Luke, who seems to be gone for the summer, my views
>are
> > correct, ot I would not hold them. We just don't expect anyone else to
> > agree, that's the difference. It's an important one, don't you think?
> >
> > jks
> >
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>Ah, the metaphor of holding a belief;
Yours, not mine.
the "right" to freedom from
>persuasion is one of the most interesting and often tragic
>contradictions of liberalism and illiberalism, no?
No. Liberals don't think you should be free from persuasion. We think you should be free from _coercion_. If you want to attempt topersuade me to support vouchers or be washed in the Blood of the Lamb or whatever, I have no right to avoid that, althoughI needn't listen or answer. What you don't have the right to do is is impose your religion on me using the force of the state.
The noxious
>historicity of political theory privileging an adversarial conception of
>"the other" even as "it" tries to hold out a possibility human
>solidarity and sympathy.
That's the human condition, not political theory.
Perhaps belief itself is the problem? And no I
>don't want to talk about the belief-desire thesis. :-)
>
>Ian
Well, I have no idea what you are talking about.
jks
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