Me: “Authority is held in trust for and exercised on behalf of the community ... not for the benefit of individuals taken one by one.”
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 25, 2020
Patheos blogger, just making stuff up: Vermeule argues for aggregative utilitarianism! https://t.co/GYBvijIsMd
“A society constituted by persons who love their private good above the common good, or who identify the common good with the private good, is a society not of free men, but of tyrants.” — @ccpecknold
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 25, 2020
Exactly. A host of mini-tyrants is still a tyranny. https://t.co/Vq3Zwe2hs6
"The conviction of some conservatives that the state can’t have a genuine, non-predatory interest in the cultivation of virtue strikes me as an anarchical accretion in modern conservative thought."
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 24, 2020
--- Authoritarian theocratic fascist William F. Buckley https://t.co/E3rJlLjJNJ
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— Anthony Daoud (@AnthonyDaoud6) April 24, 2020
Fukuyama's optimism crystallized a loyalty to liberalism but Conservatism’s introspection has been long overdue and I can’t help but side with @SohrabAhmari et al's “common-good” camp. For centuries after its inception, conservatism wasn’t averse to government. https://t.co/pRyFO0UjJM
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