I am simultaneously a libertarian and a socialcon. As a libertarian, I don't want to criminalize things unless they clearly harm innocent bystanders. As a Catholic I do not shy away from calling things that contradict scripture or lead humans into leading bad lives "immoral".https://twitter.com/shruuu/status/1066040283681325056 …
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4/ Let me also add that I think that 99% of traditional morality is NOT "irrational babbling of a sky god". I think that the vast majority of Chesterton fences keep us away from bad things that (a) do harm, (b) have enticing sales models, (c) hide the harm at the back end. >>>
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5/ To a very clever 19 year old, prohibitions on premarital sex seem insane. To a child who grew up poor bc just one parent, to a childless woman who was sterilized by an STD, etc., etc. etc the effects are perceived...even if not correlated in their mind with the prohibition.
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6/ The 19 year old may be smarter than his or her parents, but he or she is NOT smarter than 10,000 years of massively parallel human history, with all of the experimentation, failure, and success that that entails.
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For me, some of what underpins the desire for libertarian legalism is a disinterest in forming unnecessary judgements about another's life decisions. Your view is coherent now that you've explained it, though.
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