tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post2649114434337223499..comments2024-03-22T00:20:38.510-07:00Comments on Adam Riggio writes: The Inevitable Clash of Domains, Research Time, 16/09/2013Adam Riggiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-15418319587339718242013-09-16T14:19:21.524-07:002013-09-16T14:19:21.524-07:00Couldn't this be as simple as saying, when we ...Couldn't this be as simple as saying, when we view ourselves as living in a special, elevated time, our morality is bent and twisted to accommodate the circumstances, but then these same people, when projecting forward in time, may well envision an entirely different moral order.<br /><br />Akhil Reed Amar speaks of a similar logic at play in 4/5ths clause of the US Constitution: both Northern and Southern leaders viewed the existence of slavery as an ill of the present, exceptional age that ought to be done away with, just not now. Of course, Southern interests reversed on that point.Tom Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942888225118081569noreply@blogger.com