On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> From this perspective, speculations about the morals of people
> supporting or resisting social change are irrelevant. We know that
> moral systems will shift when historical transformations occur, so
> the important thing is political action to transform society. The
> moral beliefs that justify and reinforce the new social conditions
> will follow.
So why bother with trying to change things according to a set of principles? Why should anyone bother to transform anything without some moral/ethical sense that what exists is bad, or wrong, or sucks in some sense?
Doug