It's ok to have those views. I feel I'm on the right side of Progress and history and when I die and go to heaven I'm sure God will be proud of the liberal positions I took while on earth just like the liberal and radical Jesus.
Originally Posted by Sistine Chapel
You believe your on the "right side" because????? You want the government involved in every part of your/Liberal life in order to achieve equal opportunity. Well there is no such thing as equal opportunity, we all must make our own way in life in order to respect ourselves and to respect others (respect is first and foremost IMO). How can we as a people appreciate anything in life if we haven't worked for it, and how can we respect a government who wants to take everything from us. I do get it, that "some Liberals" believe they are doing good by "helping others", but really, if you can't help yourself, how can one expect to help others.
Now I ask you, what is really wrong with the Conservative thought process that says treat everyone fairly, it does not say, I will work my azz off to give to the ones who don't want to have respect nor be respected because they believe it is better to take than to give.
Once again due to time constraints, I will submit to you the Moral Foundations Theory by psychologist Jonathan Haidt;
"Care (harm): cherishing and protecting others.
Fairness (cheating): rendering justice according to shared rules. (Alternate name: Proportionality)
Liberty (oppression): the loathing of tyranny.
Loyalty (betrayal): standing with your group, family, nation. (Alternate name: Ingroup)
Authority (subversion) : obeying tradition and legitimate authority. (Alternate name: Respect.)
Sanctity (degradation) : abhorrence for disgusting things, foods, actions. (Alternate name: Purity.)
Haidt and his colleagues conducted extensive research and found that liberals tend to construct a morality based mainly on two of these foundations, care/harm and fairness/cheating.
Conservatives on the other hand tend to place an equal weighting on all six foundations.
Moral dimensions of liberals and conservatives
Hence liberals end up thinking that conservatives care less about issues such as welfare and inequality ( ie care & fairness)
Whilst conservatives think that liberals want to subvert the status quo and are hell bent on achieving some kind of pacifist, socialist utopia.
Is conservatism more moral than liberalism?
Thing is, if Haidt is right, it's actually the conservatives who have the moral upper hand. Because it is their world view that actually takes into account more of the dimensions we consider in moral life.
You can see why this might annoy liberals.
We live in an age where conservatism is blamed for the particular breed of uncaring, unequitable breed of capitalism that spawned the neoliberal policies of post Reagan/Thatcher politics and economics.
Which in turn have brought about unprecedented levels of inequality, greed and social unrest.
So all conservatives, from Trump at one end of the spectrum, to those in the centre-right, get tarred with the 'evil' brush by liberals.
Whereas in truth, we're more alike than different
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