False Choice Society
14th June 2021
ZMan waxes philosophical.
One of the underappreciated aspects of liberal democracy is that it always pits morality versus objective facts, always creating a false choice. Every public debate is between one camp that demand we do “the right thing” and another camp that insist on doing “the correct thing”. The right thing is defined as the moral thing while the correct thing is the factually accurate or effective thing. The choice is failure while on the moral high ground or succeed and be seen and inhumane or indifferent.
We see this in the perennial proglodyte push for ‘soak the rich’. The premise (never stated, always just assumed) is that income/wealth inequality is somehow immoral, so we are morally obliged to rob productive people of their property, however gotten, in order to ensure a Right Moral Order. (If that means that you can distribute the swag among your Underclass followers and thereby ensure your own power, well, that’s an added bonus – who deserves it more than the Paragons of Virtue?)