Moral Time Travel and the Futility of Liberalism

Maverick Philosopher: "Identifying goodness with rational desirability is like identifying truth with rational acceptability. In both cases, relativism results."

I sure don't want to get in the middle of the debate going on over at Maverick's place (I could not keep up anyway), but I was thinking about what "rational" means in this context. I've always been bothered by the demand of the perfect rational observer. What good does it do to say that if you knew all the facts of a situation you could choose the good? If you mean to say that a real person could actually know all the facts, then you're nuts and otherwise you get relativism.

I think that when we say "rational and informed" what we really mean is our future self. Humans exist and act in time. There is a real, unchangeable past to inform us. Our present will be our past and that past will inform us whether we acted rightly or not. We know that that future will come and that our future will judge us. There is no need to imagine some perfect rational observer; we need only await him.

Liberals have refused to judge their past and therefore are now incapable of moral decision making. Liberalism is inherently incapable of morality anyway. They like to call themselves Progressives and this is the problem. They look to the future when they should remember the past. The history of humanity informs us that there is an unchanging human nature. Liberals believe that they can change mankind into a nobler creature (oddly they try to do this by shitting all over human dignity). Conservatives accept human nature for what it is and go about trying to improve our character.

History has placed The Left in the ash heap. If Liberals would accept that fact, they could join us in the truly noble effort of spreading prosperity and freedom to the rest of the world.