Now, imagine instead that it was the line up at a polling station in a general election. This matters, folks. As far as realism in intellectual rigor matters, this matters. If we are going to attempt, by reason, to discern and design a system of government that is moral, it must be practical. And if it is to be practical, then in practice it had best not postulate the Platonist fantasy, The Rational Man .
Objectivity demands it.
Crush the Criminals To illustrate, let me somewhat unfairly pick on another recent LFCity Times writer. In his essay Justice Without Force , Andre Goldman discusses the growing use of arbitration, mediation and negotiation for the resolution of disputes. Otherwise, forget it. ADR is an adjunct to, not a substitute for, a system of Courts that are backed with the possibility of violence. Justice with force arose, historically, for a reason.