The Rawlsian Myth of the Morally Neutral Perspective
The other day I had an exchange with a progressive about Amy Coney Barrett. The exchange was touched off by Ms. Progressive’s comment about Barrett’s faith: “I don’t think her religion is a problem as much as her religious convictions driving her decision making is.” I encounter this sort of muddled thinking from progressives all of the time. And it is always based on the same progressive myth – the myth that some people (namely, progressives) arrive at their conclusions (whether the conclusion concerns a matter of policy, law, politics or whatever else) from some morally neutral and objectively rational “view from nowhere” while other people’s conclusions are based on their biases (or bigotries if the progressive is not feeling Read More ›