re: #111 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Good grief. When individuals—factory workers, say—we’re treated like disposable machine parts, when racial minorities were terrorized, when immigrants and the poor were segregated into urban slums, etc.

Rod is a deeply authoritarian traditionalist, and order is far more important to rights.

Transgendered people and gay people violate his sense order (based on appeals to 3,000 year old Greek musings), and he literally cannot stand that. From his link on rights vs ends.

If you’re committed to an overarching (religious or philosophical) vision of human flourishing that precludes gender reassignment surgery, then an expression of disapproval and perhaps even disgust at the Vanity Fair cover would seem to be in order. But if you’ve left behind any such comprehensive morality of ends in favor of a morality of rights, then it’s hard to see what’s wrong with Jenner’s actions, or with the magazine in promoting them publicly on its cover

You see what they are getting at ? Conservative morality is not interested in rights…only in the ends of a moral, structured society. I think I begin to understand why a certain strain of conservative was so utterly inimical to the civil rights campaigns in our history and why they (Rod included) are so hostile to civil rights unrest in Amerca now. Order leads to a moral society.