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THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE INSULTING TO CONSERVATIVES. PLEASE DON'T TREAT IT AS SUCH. Thanks and sorry for the caps.
I'm just a little confused about conservatism. It seems a little contradictory to want the gov't completely out of people's lives... except when religion, vices, sex and reproduction come into discussion- aka things that people do in private, in their free time and do not concern the greater society. Government action is unacceptable when it concerns the public sphere (healthcare, education etc.), yet it's encouraged when it tells consenting adults what to do in the bedroom, whether they can marry or not, whether they can end an unwanted and potentially harming pregnancy or not and so on. How's that?
If it's all about freedom, why can't it be freedom to do everything except that which harms others? Why should people's most valued freedoms be only the freedom to buy, sell, consume and produce, and the freedom to bear arms?
And no, I'm not a liberal. Fiscally I'm right-leaning.
@O'Ryan: I see. For some reason I thought that those who consider themselves conservative are all for social conservatism.
"Now tell me, isn't wanting the government to tax people heavily because poorer people need their money regulating morality? It is deciding that people need to be more "charitable."" Not necessarily regulating morality, but just wrong. Was this really necessary, since I've stated that I'm fiscally right-leaning?
I'm just a little confused about conservatism. It seems a little contradictory to want the gov't completely out of people's lives... except when religion, vices, sex and reproduction come into discussion- aka things that people do in private, in their free time and do not concern the greater society. Government action is unacceptable when it concerns the public sphere (healthcare, education etc.), yet it's encouraged when it tells consenting adults what to do in the bedroom, whether they can marry or not, whether they can end an unwanted and potentially harming pregnancy or not and so on. How's that?
If it's all about freedom, why can't it be freedom to do everything except that which harms others? Why should people's most valued freedoms be only the freedom to buy, sell, consume and produce, and the freedom to bear arms?
And no, I'm not a liberal. Fiscally I'm right-leaning.
@O'Ryan: I see. For some reason I thought that those who consider themselves conservative are all for social conservatism.
"Now tell me, isn't wanting the government to tax people heavily because poorer people need their money regulating morality? It is deciding that people need to be more "charitable."" Not necessarily regulating morality, but just wrong. Was this really necessary, since I've stated that I'm fiscally right-leaning?