buybuydandavis comments on Thoughts on moral intuitions - LessWrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 13 August 2012 01:16:48AM 0 points [-]

I got the language of imposing control from you in the quote I gave:

most of them want to impose just as much control

One of the issues that I never got to was how you used "pushing morality" in two fundamentally different senses: 1) persuading others to adopt your moral values (as immediately above) and 2) using coercive force to impose your moral values on others, and you do when referring to numerous cases of using the force of law to impose moral values on other people.

But I wasn't as clear as I should have been. It's not just that liberals want to impose more control, it's that they attempt to impose more control, and are too often successful at it.