Aah! A Twitterstorm of Fools!
Matt Yglesias has twittered the following: "Woman who have sex are the new serial killers, apparently: http://gene-callahan.blogspot.com/2012/03/moral-reality-its-whatever-i-want-it-to.html " This has sent a flood of people my way who are all taunting me for thinking consensual sex is the same as serial killing. Well, I don't know Yglesias's writings well, but hopefully he wrote this while on the verge of passing out drunk in some Adams Morgan dive bar at three AM, because it is written by someone seemingly oblivious to the use of reductio ad absurdum . The person I was critiquing had claimed that "Everyone gets to define their own morality." She likes this idea when it comes to consensual sex. What I sought to do was show her that, if she applied this idea consistently, she really wouldn't like all of the consequences. So I deliberately sought out a case that was quite unlike consensual sex, but one where, if she applied her principle consistent...