[MD] Biological Quality & Social Conservatism

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting "Keith A. Gillette" <Keith.Gillette at Detling.org>:


> Apropos of this line of reasoning, I just listened to a lecture by Roger
> Scruton, a British intellectual prominent especially during the Thatcher
> administration, discussing his view of the impact of sexual license on
> social stability in the context of classical liberalism ala J.S. Mill. The
> lecture was recorded 6-January-2007 and will play on TV Ontario's *Big
> Ideas* program this Saturday, 4-August-2008. It's available as an MP3 at:
> <http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas>.
> 
> While I think Scruton makes a number of unfounded assertions in this lecture
> and doesn't arrive at definite policy recommendations which one may take up
> for debate, his perspective is erudite, informed, and consistent with
> Pirsig's views. I found his speech thought-provoking.
 

Keith:
Thanks for the reference to the Scruton lecture. I also found it thought provoking
and expressive of my reluctance to endorse gay marriage, pointing out that law
has a protective function to insure the social order can reproduce itself. I
highly recommend that everyone listen to Scruton on the subject of why freedom
must at times be circumscribed. Thanks again.

Platt





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