RE: Conservatives have more self-control
January 26, 2018 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2018 at 2:40 pm by GodisintheTV.)
Maintaining infrastructure and upholding just laws are but forms of helping people, no?
It might make sense that conservatives generally possess more self-control, considering their obsession with absolutes and finalities. I suppose there's value to holding strong convictions; it's just that all their convictions seem to be either plain wrong or pointless. For example, one of my freshman year roommates was a Mormon, about to go on a mission, who claimed he hadn't masturbated in two years. I believed him, and actually admired that level of self-control, but...why? If only they could apply that resolve to something useful.
On the other hand, a Richard Dawkins show I watched examined studies showing that conservatives actually consume the most pornography, so clearly they don't all have that control. (Utah County also boasts the highest rate of white collar crime.) It all comes down to that old psychological precept, that people will lust more after something if it is made taboo.
We need more atheists like Dawkins, with determination and resolve equal to that of our hallucinating opposition. I think our main issue as a group is that we tend to be independent thinkers who aren't naturally inclined to join together.
It might make sense that conservatives generally possess more self-control, considering their obsession with absolutes and finalities. I suppose there's value to holding strong convictions; it's just that all their convictions seem to be either plain wrong or pointless. For example, one of my freshman year roommates was a Mormon, about to go on a mission, who claimed he hadn't masturbated in two years. I believed him, and actually admired that level of self-control, but...why? If only they could apply that resolve to something useful.
On the other hand, a Richard Dawkins show I watched examined studies showing that conservatives actually consume the most pornography, so clearly they don't all have that control. (Utah County also boasts the highest rate of white collar crime.) It all comes down to that old psychological precept, that people will lust more after something if it is made taboo.
We need more atheists like Dawkins, with determination and resolve equal to that of our hallucinating opposition. I think our main issue as a group is that we tend to be independent thinkers who aren't naturally inclined to join together.
