[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 05:56:56 PDT 2009


I think part of the confusion might be that Carrol is using "moral" in a more specific sense than the rest of us. To many people, if you see someone getting beaten on the street, get angry, and do something to help, that's "morality," even if you understand that your desire not to see people suffer is an irrational product of culture/evolution/whatever. Carrol seems to think it requires moral realism; that for an objection to be moral it would have to be grounded in reference to a transhistorical True ideal. Carrol sees people say "moral" and thinks they're engaging in metaphysics. Doug (or whoever) sees Carrol say "moral" and thinks she's claiming not to care about things.

There's an empirical component here, of course ("what do X leaders in the Democratic Party think they're trying to accomplish?") but that seems to be comparatively clear.



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