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>John Rawls is something that you’re not - a complete and utter relativist.
>If his “overlapping consensus” is to be the ultimate ground here, all sorts
>of atrocities in history could be easily validated, due to an overlapping
>consensus at the time. Unless I’ve been misreading you for the better part
>of a decade, I don’t think you would agree with that.
Sorry Anthony, you have lost me here, what sort of atrocities were
committed on grounds of an overlapping consensus between which
conflicting parties ?
Nobody will ever doubt the fundamental moral maxim “thou shalt
not kill”; we only deliberate whether it is applicable in border cases
or value conflicts (e.g. abortion, euthanasia, death penalty, enemies).
We never actively (consciously) *choose* this maxim and neither do
we feel compelled to search or offer a rational model of justification
for it. In this sense this maxim is (even primatologically speaking) of
universal status and one of the core ingredients of any overlapping
consensus. Yet how this universal notion will make Rawls, or me or
whomever, complete and utter relativists is beyond me.
yours,
Jan
