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Absolutes in conflict
A conflict of liberal absolutes: Minneapolis Library workers sue over porn. Under liberalism, the patrons have an absolute and unquestionable right to view whatever materials they wish. The alternative, since it’s a public library, is state censorship by the very institution charged to make information publicly available. On the other hand, the female workers also have an absolute and unquestionable right, one to a “non-harassing” work environment in which being female raises no issues. The solution? Demand $450,000 a head, and then wait for the Supreme Court to cut the Gordian knot (or cut the baby in half). Liberal academics say that a selling point for their view is that by
eliminating transcendent references it reduces all issues to a common
human ground on which all things are negotiable, and thus prevents
intractable ideological conflicts. It’s obvious that the opposite is
true: liberalism multiplies this-worldly absolutes, and by abolishing
any possible principle of unity among the contending parties makes peace
impossible apart from a comprehensive system of force and manipulation.
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