It is dangerous if people think of our liberal democracy as a baseline condition of society, its administration as bad as it gets. Our society is a complex clockwork, much easier to destroy than to fix. The baseline condition is civil war.
Pluralism was the conclusion of the cost to enforce totalitarianism, but a full commitment to pluralism entails the deconstruction of moral universalism. After that, a good chunk of our productivity progress came not just from liberalism, but also from modernist totalitarianisms.
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For instance, the current form of moderate ethno fascism that runs China results from reforming Maoist totalitarianism, after it ate feudalist absolutism with Konfucian norms.
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We actually don't know that yet; it is an empirical and not a moral question. For all we know, most of the next generation will painfully perish due to global warming.
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