Zack Beauchamp

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

For example, Deneen says that Mill justifies slavery in "Considerations on Representative Government." This is 100 percent wrong. Mill says some racist stuff about "barbaric" societies in the text, but he's very explicit that advanced states are never justified in keeping slaves https://t.co/LW1dLZsqG5 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 21, 2020 Hibernated

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This is not what Mill's harm principle means! The contortions and distortions used to arrive at this misreading are really striking. I try to read Patrick generously, as a thoughtful exponent of a worldview I disagree with. I wish he did the same for the liberals he so hates. — PolitiTweet.org

"The Harm Principle" is tyrannical in implications. We leave other people alone so that a "creative class" can emer… https://t.co/6NAULwGvlk

Posted May 21, 2020 Hibernated

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To stand up the argument that the harm principle is despotic, Deneen yanked Mill's argument out of context — making it look like an argument against 19th century slavery was actually an argument for it. And that's just one of many errors in the thread. It's very bad. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 21, 2020 Hibernated