Daily quote by Value (ethics)

• Even though moral values are not simply “chosen” but rather “discovered”, it is central to the democratic objectivist position that the free individual acceptance or recognition of value is an essential and not an accidental requirement in valuing its moral standing. The use of force always requires a particular justification. Moral truth is not a sufficient condition of this and even not a necessary condition.
  A democratic objectivist is not insensitive to Devlin's conventionalist argument about “social disintegration”. But while convnentionalists argue against moral pluralism because they consider it to be a sign of such disintegration taking place, from the pluralist point of view, enforcing one particular morality is, on the contrary, seen as a disintegrating social force, which would lead to upheavals, civil war, repression and discrimination.
  • Peter Alldridge, Chrisje H. Brants; “Personal Autonomy, the Private Sphere and Criminal Law”, (2001), pp.38