We focus on legislating for minorities. This serves to divide; since these are treated as separate groups. How does this fit with democracy, which surely is rule by the majority?
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place.” John Rawls
One of the problems is that there is a loosening hold on shared values wherein society protects and honours all, especially the weakest and those furthest from some “norm”. Without such fundamental shared morality then we are left as a nation of “isms” – racism, sexism and the like. A place where those who are left out have no choice but to band together and fight – as a separate group.
Europe’s moral code, and hence America’s, was founded in Christianity. This no longer serves to bind us, but is there a secular equivalent to “love your neighbour as yourself”? John Rawls put forward this idea.
“A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place.” John Rawls
What a wonderful ideal. A society and politics I would follow and fight for…