The essay was not using the framing of “wishing to impose control”, but “wishing to push one’s morality on others”. These are somewhat related, but different. E.g. libertarians are pushing their morality on others when they say that everyone should be as free as possible, when both liberals and conservatives are likely to say that everyone shouldn’t be as free as possible.
I got the language of imposing control from you in the quote I gave:
most of them want to impose just as much control
One of the issues that I never got to was how you used “pushing morality” in two fundamentally different senses: 1) persuading others to adopt your moral values (as immediately above) and 2) using coercive force to impose your moral values on others, and you do when referring to numerous cases of using the force of law to impose moral values on other people.
But I wasn’t as clear as I should have been. It’s not just that liberals want to impose more control, it’s that they attempt to impose more control, and are too often successful at it.
The essay was not using the framing of “wishing to impose control”, but “wishing to push one’s morality on others”. These are somewhat related, but different. E.g. libertarians are pushing their morality on others when they say that everyone should be as free as possible, when both liberals and conservatives are likely to say that everyone shouldn’t be as free as possible.
I got the language of imposing control from you in the quote I gave:
One of the issues that I never got to was how you used “pushing morality” in two fundamentally different senses: 1) persuading others to adopt your moral values (as immediately above) and 2) using coercive force to impose your moral values on others, and you do when referring to numerous cases of using the force of law to impose moral values on other people.
But I wasn’t as clear as I should have been. It’s not just that liberals want to impose more control, it’s that they attempt to impose more control, and are too often successful at it.