As you read Paul Chesser‘s piece about the recent Newsweek discussion of global warming skeptics, perhaps you’ll find the following passage interesting:
The supporters of a heteronomous [not self-determining; subordinate to something else; opposed to autonomous] morality and of the collectivistic doctrine cannot hope to demonstrate by raciocination [reasoning to a logical conclusion] the correctness of their specific variety of ethical principles and the superiority and exclusive legitimacy of their particular social ideal. They are forced to ask people to accept credulously their ideological system and to surrender to the authority they consider the right one; they are intent upon silencing dissenters or upon beating them into submission.
The source? Ludwig Von Mises’ Human Action (1949), in chapter eight on “Human Society.”