RE: How can the paramount good for liberals and conservatives be reconciled?
May 30, 2013 at 10:03 am
(May 25, 2013 at 10:09 pm)Gilgamesh Wrote: I would be more likely to agree with a liberal about any given topic than a republican, although, this doesn't make me a liberal.
You really shut yourself in when you choose a side. Unfortunately it's human nature to want to belong to a group. When one chooses a side, one tends to become biased towards the ideals of 'their' party. If one wasn't so concerned with belonging to a party, one may find they were taking a lot of positions, not through reason, but because it's a position taken by their party.
But I do think to be a conservative you have to be either a dimwit and/or religious. To me, conservatism in America is only "We want religion in government."
I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I'm one of the most fun shut-ins to be around.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
