[JRandomFreeper]

May I refer you to Kipling's 'Gods of the Copybook Headings'? Reasonable men will not differ that fire burns, water is wet, or that socialism is an evil political system.

If a second-rate poet from a century ago gets it, and things haven't changed.... I think the conservative point of view is pretty sound.

I can also make the case based on sociological evolution, but there's not much point. You see, I'm just a cook, not a philosopher. And conservatives expect even their cooks to be educated.

/john

[epigone73]

Kipling was by no means second-rate. somewhere less than 1st, but certainly better than second.

As for socialism, etc., need I remind anyone here that such movements wdid not materialize from the ether, but were the bastard children of our own enlightenment.

fine, socialism is evil, we all agree. Now, two questions:

1) What makes it evil, and any alternative more desireable?

2) Since Socialism was born in the west, and was really a sort of impatient and militant version of the Enlightenment,
does this mean that this, too, is worthy of conserving? If not, then what about the enlightenment, which birthed socialism and our own freedom? they are related, you know. (see Esau and Jacob for a similar phenomenon)