Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy
Quote Originally Posted by Parasurama
The "correct political position" based on what criteria exactly?
Optimal well-being for all/most and all/most to come is as good a criteria as we need right now. The criteria is debatable, but it's not anything radically different than that.
Personally I buy that, but it's not universal: c.f. deontological libertarianism.

If we could all agree on ethics then I think political theory would be a science, but we can't...