Posted on 03/22/2010 12:08:48 PM PDT by Starman417
It's bizarre whenever I hear liberals complain about "holier than thou" social conservatives preaching to them about moral values when liberals do it ALL the time. Oh, how they love to cry "hypocrite" when conservatives actually set standards for themselves, yet fall short of living up to those standards. My definition of a hypocrite is someone who preaches what he doesn't actually believe. That's different than someone who strives to live up to a standard, but falls short.
"Anything goes"-type of liberals have no standards, so they'll never disappoint themselves by embracing immoral lifestyles.
But then we have the smug "holier than thou" liberal eco-nuts who preach one thing, and do another. Who do things not because in their heart of hearts it's actually the right thing to do, but because it has the appearance of them doing the right thing, making them feel smug in pretense that they are "fighting the good fight" for Mother Earth. It's about them wanting a pat on the back so they can feel good about themselves.
This coming in from The Guardian of all places:
When Al Gore was caught running up huge energy bills at home at the same time as lecturing on the need to save electricity, it turns out that he was only reverting to "green" type.According to a study, when people feel they have been morally virtuous by saving the planet through their purchases of organic baby food, for example, it leads to the "licensing [of] selfish and morally questionable behaviour", otherwise known as "moral balancing" or "compensatory ethics".
Do Green Products Make Us Better People is published in the latest edition of the journal Psychological Science.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
By similar token, possibly conservatives who spend a lot of time talking about the importance of (sexual) morality might tend to feel they have earned a break on actually being expected to implement it.
Not right, of course, but very much human nature.
The left-wing love to accuse the religious right-wing of trying to force their morality upon society yet it is the left-wing who actually are always trying to force society to march lockstep to their perverted morality. “Thou shall treat homosexuality as equal to heterosexuality” “Thou shall not restrict the murder of unborn babies” “Thou shall not kill murderers and child rapists” The left-wing have their own perverted morality that they seek to force upon society.
The major difference though between the left and the right is that at least the right-wing believes in EQUAL representation for ALL. It is the left-wing that seeks to use the Court to dictate their morality, not the right-wing.
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