Cost is only one factor, and an inadequate criterion, although it lends itself to measurement. Of course my values enter in. To me, that does not mean that my analysis is not objective, since I think that values are objectively grounded. You may, indeed, disagree, but either you refute my analysis, or we have an unbridgeable gap. After all, determining what is important, and how much it is worth to hassle about it, is a value judgement, too. I only emphasized the public dimension of it because you began by trying to say that people's eccentric moral commitments were none of my business. I would agree if it did not have broader social consequences. But such eccentricities usually do.
To me it is evident that a matter that impinges on people's right to raise their children more or less as they see fit is serious, and that the social value of promoting tolerance about lesbianism among 8 year olds who barely know what sexuality is, if at all, does not come near to weighing against it. But you appear to think it is merely a question of my bias, so I guess we have an unbridgeable gap.
Thanks for the discussion....... |
