And yes aeroplanes, computers, and antibiotics are great. We just need science now to deal with climate change and antibiotic resistant bugs and I'll love it even more.
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Replying to @Counteredlogos @HPluckrose
And many millions of people on this planet don't have access to any of these things - but they can teach us advanced liberals incredible stuff that we've lost. Family, community, obligations, social ties, in a word - wisdom.
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Quite possibly but this seems to be a different matter again. Perhaps we could have those things (provided we want them) and not die in childbirth.
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Not dying in childbirth is something a humane person should want available for all (modernity hasn't managed that yet, but yes, it's come closest). Nonetheless, are we really that great? We're quite good at things like depression, eating disorders, addiction, violence, etc
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Pretty great, yes. We don't know how much depression, and eating disorder there was in times past coz society didn't recognise it. Addiction is as new as the things to be addicted to. Violence is at an all time low. Would you like to have lived in medieval times?
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Yes and no. I don't buy the idea that these maladies are as old as the hills, but we're never gonna settle that on Twitter. Addiction in the Ancient World, yes - opoid *epidemics*, no. The violence statistics are also a minefield.
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Well no, limited opioids. You think depression is new? Maybe, to some extent. People had to keep going in the past and that helps. Sympathy for sufferers is quite new. Violence has clearly decreased tho. See Pinker.
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But to get back to what we began with (I think I just deleted a tweet which said this), I wrote the article because I was frustrated by a misappropriation of Kant (not by you), which I wanted to correct. What provoked it is that when I read today's classical liberals I'm often...
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frustrated by the spectacular self-belief, which can be patronising. I was reading Lenin the other day (long story): didn't fnd it patronising. The day before I was reading Burke, and even that didn't feel patronising. I guess it comes from considering a...
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...belief system (forgive me) as something more than an ideology, something pseudo-religious - eternal truth.
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I don't know what that means
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