Ask yourselves this, why do I believe in Global Warming? If you don’t then pretend you do. The most likely answer and the most credible is that all the science and scientists said it is happening and that humans are the cause of it. This causes you to believe that certain things should be done even compulsory or at least encouraged or discouraged though taxation. These actions are justified because of the science. But how can you know yourself for sure that the science is right. Our climate science might in truth be as real as the idea that the sun orbits the earth. That’s not what I want to discuss really and when it comes to global warming that could kill of human life I’ll trust the scientists.

Of course this points out how our ideas including political come out of our own subjectivity and experiences. When it comes to ideology the truth of your ideas are even less objective and scientifically provable than the science of global warming. The effect is though even more vast, a politicians ideology will drive them in their action even more than climate change policy, it will as well drive their reaction to the problem to.

So how can these resulting actions [ideologically driven actions] be justified when they stretch so far on people’s life on such subjective grounds? How can I in another way justify my own liberalism? The answer cant lie in some justification like the existence of God given rights because that is based itself on subjective ideas that aren’t objectively provable to be forever true. In this case very few of all the possible answers could stand up to the attack of being subjective.

In that case, why I am still a confident liberal? Despite not finding some provable forever true answer, the fact that we can ask the questions and create reasonable answers to them. The fact that people can look in themselves and explore their subjectivity is itself an adequate answer. The fact that we can ask ourselves moral ethical questions and learn and improve on them is the justification of liberalism.