tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post1656682335814399180..comments2019-09-18T07:05:16.788-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Quickies: “Democrats Are More Moral”Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-47241167122509466192018-10-09T10:49:11.342-04:002018-10-09T10:49:11.342-04:00In a way, this post inspired my own this morning (...In a way, this post inspired my own this morning (although on a very different topic - you will catch the similarity in the mode of thinking, though).<br /><br />I&#39;ve been trying to articulate something that, perhaps, I just don&#39;t have the education or experience to get out quite the way I want to. I will try anyway.<br /><br />The way these people think is fundamentally wrong on many levels. Cart before the horse. Dinesh asks the question &quot;why is this a moral issue?&quot; The Leftist doesn&#39;t understand how it could be otherwise, because he thinks like this:<br /><br />1. Most scientists say man-made global warming is both true, and undesirable. <br />2. Thus government must take various drastic actions to slow or reverse the thing.<br />3. If you disagree with this, you are immoral.<br /><br />One may disagree with #1 on both factual and philosophical grounds. One can dispute the facts, the readings, and the interpretation of those facts. One can also dispute it on the grounds that it&#39;s not really a repeatable experiment, and thus isn&#39;t really science. As a result, the accuracy may be assumed to be less than if it were a repeatable experiment. Disagreements here imply no moral superiority or inferiority.<br /><br />One may agree with #1, but then disagree with #2, by stating something like &quot;governments are typically terrible polluters themselves, we do not wish to trust them to fix this.&quot; They may suggest that the proposed government measures will be ineffective, cost too much relative to the benefit, or have side effects like Dinesh discusses - i.e. impoverishing developing countries. Again, not really a moral question so much as a discussion about the proper and effective actions.<br /><br />The Left wants to turn everything into a moral question, and then assume a position of implied moral superiority in order to guilt people into agreeing with them. &quot;If you don&#39;t agree, you&#39;re not a good person.&quot; It&#39;s insidious, and must be exposed for what it is.Dystopichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13082153758868357687noreply@blogger.com