Advice from Matt Zwolinski
full article at Fee
Excerpts:
There are at two main reasons why reasonable disagreement is so common.
1) The moral values that underlie our political debates are plural and conflicting.
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2) Many of our moral disagreement are ultimately rooted in complicated empirical questions.
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So be humble — don’t be so confident that the beliefs you’ve formed are the single correct way of thinking about political morality. And be tolerant. Recognize that people who disagree with you might have good reasons for doing so.
Of course, I think that being tolerant of reasonable disagreement means that we should be reluctant to impose our moral views on others by force, or to ask the state to do so on our behalf.
But then again, I’m a libertarian, so I would think that, wouldn’t I?