Welcome to the era of the post-moral panic
In our morally unanchored society, elite fearmongers prefer to use so-called science rather than moralism to reshape our behaviour.
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One question we should ask ourselves is whether it’s possible to have a moral panic at a time when there is no moral consensus.
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