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> others have argued that moral judgments cannot be used as arguments, since
> there is no way to ground ethical propositions.
There's no way to ground your language, either. And conflicting uses of a language often produce endless confusion. But that hasn't stopped either of us from using it, both to analyze and express political concepts. Nor are either of our politics divorced from personal moralities.
Now where we often agree - assuming our language is identical - is on the use of moralities as arguments. I, too, have little patience for those who peddle their causes on the basis of moral intuition alone.
But when you posit, as you sometimes seem to, that an individual politics can exist apart from an individual morality - or, indeed, that an individual can exist apart from an individual morality - you veer off into Crazy Man Land.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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