[rlmorel]

Are these the "Universalists"?

I went to one with my wife (she was going to a craft fair) in Concord, MA...one of the cradles of liberty.

While she was browsing around, I was looking at the literature and the posters on the wall, and there was one thing I saw that really jumped out and made me gulp...

"...every person should be able to determine for themselves what is right and what is wrong..."

Now, I believe in allowing people to reach their own conclusions about things, but there was something both in the statement and the context that I found disturbing. The individual gets to decide right from wrong, not society. To any independent thinker, that sounds fine. I consider myself a fairly independent thinker, but to me, that statement reeks of the Rousseauian crap that liberalism springs from.

[stentorian conservative]

". . . that liberalism springs from."

And that is the slippery slope that I fear most.

[TradicalRC]

"...every person should be able to determine for themselves what is right and what is wrong..."

Except of course, for those people that WE have decided to label "intolerant".