tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576706537428990740.post559147376880574926..comments2023-10-01T15:01:50.011+03:00Comments on Technology Rig: On LibertyAli Redahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15778992914963868212noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576706537428990740.post-36233643361730355262016-10-15T15:00:13.905+02:002016-10-15T15:00:13.905+02:00Commentary by Rev. J. Roland Cole, 10-15-16:
I hav...Commentary by Rev. J. Roland Cole, 10-15-16:<br />I have two responses. Regarding possible “religious prohibitions,” Mill said, “Members of the majority ought to make rules which they would accept should they have been the minority” <br /><br />This suggests an application of the Golden Rule in social ethical decision-making (“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”), is similar to Kant’s categorical imperative (one decides his or her ethical action by determining if s/he could will it to become “a universal law.”), and it anticipates Religious Liberty with its freedoms from coercions re other persons, church’s, and governments’ beliefs and doctrines a-n-d its freedoms to self-expression, autonomy, conscience and the free expression of one’s conscientious beliefs, and the free exercise of one’s God-given rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the rights enumerated in our Bill of Rights and others not so enumerated, such as the right to privacy, etc..<br /><br />My second response is a request for clarification. Whereas Utilitarianism (short-handed as “The great good or happiness for the greatest number”) contributed “laissez-faire capitalism” as its economic principle (business, not government, making the rules of the economy), J. S. Mill was quick to deny persons or groups causing real harm to others. Called “Liberalism” in its day (as opposed to the “Conservatism” of the Aristocratic rule in England at the time) and “Conservatism” in our day, calls for “free and unfettered capitalism” have long been shown to harm the health and safety of its workers and transporters, as well as the civilian population which buys its products. Hence, the need for governmental regulations.<br /><br />Is it true that J. S. modified his father, James’ and Jeremy Bentham’s original non-socialistic, “l-f capitalism” within its first 10-15 years? That this ethicist, moral philosopher, and defender of Utilitarianism recognized that governments/some agencies have a moral and legal right AND responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of businesses’ workers and product transporters, as well as their consumers, through regulation? I’ve been taught this and have asserted it, but I’ve not seen the footnotes. Can you clarify this issue for us? (Can anybody? Please inform here and at: colejr78@gmail.com.) Thanks!<br />Rev. J. Roland Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16444963441890328369noreply@blogger.com