1. The right is dragging the left over the coals about paedophilia (quite unfairly, as the left was unfair to the right). The truth this conceals is the liquid nature of all our ethics, beyond efficiency and Darwinian fitness we no longer have the foundations to condemn morally.
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2. This has always struck me as the reason for the hysteria around the “last taboo”. Deep down, those involved in the sexual revolution knew there was no ethical brake (AIDS turned out to be a natural, not a moral break). There’s only tradition & biology.
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3. De Sade, anticipating Nietzsche, basically described all the thinking behind this. I suspect that the latest outrage cycle on the right, with Mike Cernovich proving the unlikely voice of the new “moral majority” (no more unlikely than a 1980s televangelist, though
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4. ...will actually form part of a dialectic where outrage is the step before acceptance. The very fact that there is an outrage proves that, at some level, this topic has moved out of taboo status in some way. This is a bit determinist, perhaps.
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