[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[david buchanan]

Ian said:
We can debate and understand the distinctions in different ideologies, but as MoQists, there is no reason to choose an ideology. It's far from taking both sides, it's refusing to take sides,..

dmb says:
Well, I don't know what the difference is between taking both sides and refusing to take sides. Either way, you're equivocating, remaining neutral with respect to rival levels of value. I'm pretty sure you're wrong about this neutrality. I think it's pretty clear that the MOQ gives us moral reasons to choose among ideologies. There are several chapters about these political conflicts wherein they are framed around an evolutionary moral battle. Refusing to take sides could very well be be construed as a kind of amoral position, a kind of nihilism. Plus, like I say, it's at odds with the text.