ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to explore the loss of moral validation of borders and symbolic boundaries. Most accounts of the influence of boundarylessness perceive it as a direct outcome of the powerful forces unleashed by globalisation. As against objectivist accounts that assign a central role to the influence of structural shifts in the patterns of social life, this chapter argues that the main driver of the turn away from the practice of drawing lines is the diminishing cultural status accorded to the act of moral judgement. The unbounding of cultural norms – their detachment from boundaries and space – has as its corollary the belittling of judgment. In this chapter, Furedi offers historical-logical reconstruction of the genealogy of non-judgementalism. He claims that the distancing of society from the value of judgment encourages a climate of moral indifference that contributes to the blurring of symbolic boundaries.
