The ideas we are about to explore lie on a spectrum between ideology and evolution.

When Governments Compete, You Win
By Max Borders


** First, we need to return to the fact of pluralism. Then we need to replace King of the Mountain politics with polycentric law and competitive governance.
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People and groups are different. It’s not just that I like vanilla ice cream and you like chocolate; we also have different conceptions of value and different ideas about the good life.

As philosopher John Rawls wrote in Political Liberalism,

The fact of reasonable pluralism is not an unfortunate condition of human life, as we might say of pluralism as such, allowing for doctrines that are not only irrational but mad and aggressive. In framing a political conception of justice so it can gain an overlapping consensus, we are not bending it to existing unreason, but to the fact of reasonable pluralism, itself the outcome of the free exercise of free human reason under conditions of liberty.

Whatever you think about Rawls’s work, it’s hard to disagree with the fact of pluralism and reasonable pluralism. In other words, a) we’re all different, and b) we can hold different comprehensive doctrines—and these can compete. Rawl’s mistake was to offer a universal theory of justice when what we need is a thousand experiments.

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