Am I using 'principles' in the same sense as you here?https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/752183302421872640 …
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Is it that we are advocating roughly the same thing but I describe this as a principle & you as abandoning them?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
In a terrific twist of fate, I just read this piece--captures my position almost exactly. http://buff.ly/2epQk2o
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Very close to mine too! Had discussion much like this.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/773724095913549824 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @LunaSparks34
In this sense, ppl wld be agreeing coz it works for everyone even tho the principles they live by might be different.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @LunaSparks34
"Works for everyone" = pragmatic but you'd still have to have principles of equality & freedom to make the aim "for everyone"
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Replying to @HPluckrose @LunaSparks34
Other aims to make society work have been pragmatic & effective but included things like slavery & patriarchy so can't support
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But they didn't work. That's why we innovate new moral & ethical solutions--to overcome unacceptable problems. This is progress.
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Replying to @LunaSparks34
They didn't? Some pretty successful empires? Liberalism - accepting pluralism - might work better but its new so can't compare
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Yes, liberalism was invented because of the many failures of those past empires & states. And liberalism will be surpassed also.
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But by 'liberalism' I am referring to plurality & a cooperative acceptance of difference.
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