>>11171603>I mean, what do you value?Scientific advancement, industrial strength, growing the number of living humans, and general hedonistic fun.
> More specifically, what moral principles have guided you to think the government has a right to act counter to the will of the people?I have no “moral principles”, and anyone that does is a fool. I let my intuition lead me to choices and it often does so in ways that may seem contradictory, but never do I feel discomfort with a choice because it is fundamentally MY choice and not something that follows inescapably from some external logical ruleset or axiom I could have adopted, which often causes people to take courses of action which they find unpleasant.
“ Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
Do not make the mistake of trying to organize and/or reify morality as anything more than emotional intuition, little distinct from base sensations like happiness or boredom.
