I think that rational morality is indeed a worthy topic of discussion, though perhaps not an issue I have the stomach to pick apart with this audience at this moment ;). The question in which I'm most interested right now is the moral status of the coercer, which your perspective seems to sidestep. Which is sensible from the standpoint of "I am in this muddle; how do I get out of it?" but not sensible from my own muddle-free standpoint of trying to understand the relationship of force to morality.
I actually suspect the philosophical problem may be bigger than I initially realized when I posed the question - where do moral rules come from in the first place? who enforces them? is that coercive? what is the moral value of force, and what are the restrictions upon its use? - which means somebody must have written a dissertation on it...
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Date: 2005-08-23 09:25 pm (UTC)I actually suspect the philosophical problem may be bigger than I initially realized when I posed the question - where do moral rules come from in the first place? who enforces them? is that coercive? what is the moral value of force, and what are the restrictions upon its use? - which means somebody must have written a dissertation on it...