(March 31, 2009 at 10:44 am)lilphil1989 Wrote: I've noticed that people with "conservative" views are much more likely to claim that man-made global warming is a hoax, or conspiracy or simply a mistake. Anyone have any idea why?
My gut feeling is that being the kind of people that believe utterly in free enterprise, no taxation and so on, that somehow they know how to run their lives better than anyone else and anyone who can't do the same isn't worth the effort ... as such the idea of someone else imposing restrictions on them (be that taxation, law or scientists saying that what they are doing is fucking everyone's lives up) is going to be rejected. They're not stupid people, they just don't want to be restricted as far as I can tell.
Whilst the left can often go too far (often way too far IMO ... and I'm one of them) I have no doubt that they do at least believe they are doing the caring about everybody thing ... what the right doesn't seem to get is that if we don't care about others we all end up paying the price.
Kyu
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