2/ Friends love each other despite disagreements and honor each other's right to freedom of thought and speech. Never demand conformity to your own opinions as the price of friendship. Never submit to someone's demand for conformity to his or her opinions as friendship's price.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 24, 2021
And so if a friend disagrees about murder being an injustice and even practices it, should one still be friends with that person?
5/ If you are an ideologue, a dogmatist, you will have trouble being friends with people with whom you disagree. If you don't have friends who disagree with you on important moral and political questions, you should ask yourself whether you've become an ideologue, a dogmatist.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 24, 2021
Can one be a dogmatist about theft or murder?
8/ Fellow truth-seekers can be friends because they recognize their own fallibility and are willing to be challenged, as well as to challenge. They're eager to learn from each other. Unlike ideologues, they don't allow love of their own opinions to impede pursuit of truth.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 24, 2021
A failure to distinguish between practical and speculative truth, even though in general NNLTists still emphasize the distinction between the speculative and practical intellectg. Apparently they don't understand the implications of their own theory. It is not enough to be a "truth-seeker" to have a real friend. Real friendship is based upon shared agreement on goods and the ordering of actions leading to those goods, because they know that such a unity is necessary for living together. Liberal academics don't have to live with their friends, and so they know nothing about what real friendship requires.
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