Why Are Progressives So Afraid Of Being Complicit In Harm?
3 min readOct 28, 2021
If you’re a secular liberal, you’d find the approach to morality I was raised with both claustrophobic and alien. Progressive morality operates according to a beefed-up version of the Hippocratic Oath: doctors may swear to “first, do no harm” in their medical practice, but progressives elevate avoiding harm to a universal principle, the bedrock of all ethical thinking.