Fascinating dichotomy. Aquinas teaches that one purpose of law is to teach virtue, thereby teaching truth in practical things, too.

The "appeal to theory" is how a society deforms law: we seek the approval of the theorists instead of the judgment of authority to do things. 1/4 https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1305599116114833408

Butt this is a rationalist deception. Theorists can never be neutral "experts," as the liberal would have us think. Their approval is thus, in truth, a rubber stamp for the party who hired them. Law still enacts a moral vision, but under the pretense of technical neutrality. 2/4

Liberalism thereby masks its true formative character under the guise of neutral legislative technology.

Aquinas is still right: law teaches, but liberal law does it covertly. It thereby strips us of any remedy against its action. 3/4

How can we complain about the moral effects of law to a legislator who will not acknowledge that he is legislating morality? And we can't propose an alternative to the theorists' vision because anything else is "non-neutral." It is a perfect totalitarianism. fin/4