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To: Happy2BMe

True moral-liberals looking for true conservatives.


6 posted on 02/24/2005 6:42:34 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad

"True moral-liberals looking for true conservatives."

Yeah, whatever. Most small 'l' libertarians such as myself who usually to vote Republican (I live in Manhattan, so I often have the luxury of a protest vote), think government should stay the hell out of the morals business. And out of the business business. Nothing turns me off more than a Republican telling me how to live my life - that's the job of Democrats and other lefties.

True conservatism is about getting the government off our backs and keeping it off. I trust the marketplace. And that includes morality. People need to learn to be moral by acting moral - and not depending on the government to enforce morality. And if you can't convince people to adopt your morality without using the government to shove it down my throat, then suck it up. In that case you lost in the marketplace of ideas, and it is not the job of the government to prop up marketplace losers. That, my friend, is called communism.


25 posted on 02/24/2005 6:58:55 AM PST by New Orleans Slim
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To: Cultural Jihad

Advocating holy war against our culture is not a moral thing.


69 posted on 02/24/2005 7:40:11 AM PST by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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