Thought experiments are fun, but the real world doesn't enable us to invent society from scratch. We have to deal with the society we are given. The other brutal reality is that the Sovereign is mightier now than in Hobbes' day, covering more parts of our lives than the Leviathan's author could ever have dreamed of. Whoever controls the Sovereign decides what the morality is, which leaves little if any space for tolerance. To further reduce the room for manoeuvre, Shareholders decide our fate in the economic part of our lives, and they tolerate even less.
I kan't tolerate Kant. He wouldn't have approved of Poker, or any bluffing, for that matter.
Nor could he have approved of free enterprise because employing others is of necessity exploitative and using employees as a means to an end, and under the same pretext he was responsible for all the frigid people who won't have sex: "No, I mustn't have an orgasm because I would be objectifying you!" Give me Emmanuelle, she was very tolerant, but not Immanuel, he had a quill permanently stuck up his arse..
Thought experiments are fun, but the real world doesn't enable us to invent society from scratch. We have to deal with the society we are given. The other brutal reality is that the Sovereign is mightier now than in Hobbes' day, covering more parts of our lives than the Leviathan's author could ever have dreamed of. Whoever controls the Sovereign decides what the morality is, which leaves little if any space for tolerance. To further reduce the room for manoeuvre, Shareholders decide our fate in the economic part of our lives, and they tolerate even less.
I kan't tolerate Kant. He wouldn't have approved of Poker, or any bluffing, for that matter.
Nor could he have approved of free enterprise because employing others is of necessity exploitative and using employees as a means to an end, and under the same pretext he was responsible for all the frigid people who won't have sex: "No, I mustn't have an orgasm because I would be objectifying you!" Give me Emmanuelle, she was very tolerant, but not Immanuel, he had a quill permanently stuck up his arse..