[lbo-talk] Re: Rise of anti-democratic liberalism

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Jun 16 10:12:26 PDT 2004


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Ted Winslow wrote:


> On the assumption of "a thorough going relativity of values and ideals"
> there can be no rational basis for preferring tolerance to sadistic
> domination.
>

But here's the trap: the dominator always justifies domination by pointing out his superior morals/values/norms. So in fact domination is in fact imbricated with the notion that values can be hierarchically arranged in a nonrelativistic way. Sadistic domination is not (typically) a product of the "thorough going relativity of values".

Miles



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