"At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a vision of history."Where you have the constrained and the unconstrained visions in conflict, the Left and the Right, te rationalist utopians and the traditionalist realists, you simply talk past each other. Not unlike a man and a woman having an argument.
Whatever the fights about this or that policy or interest, behind them are incompatible pictures of human nature, maps of the universe and visions of history.
Noting just a single issue of how this plays out, Sowell notes that "Much of what the unconstrained vision sees as morally imperative to do, the constrained vision sees man as incapable of doing."
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