You only say that because you're a Conservative and your ideas stand up to logic and reason and you have concrete examples to back you up.
If you were a liberal, easily suggestible, emotional, with an unbroken record of failure, suffering, and violence, you'd better understand the impulse to silence dissenting viewpoints.
Actually, I have several opinions that would get me flamed, if not zotted; but I don’t express them on here.
I don’t mind debate, and I’ve promulgated, in public discourse, some things that friends who agree with me on much would find in error; but FR is private property :-)
I *do* understand the impulse to silence repulsive and harmful viewpoints; I just personally think that it’s better for anybody to be able to be exposed to any viewpoint on anything than for any group, philosophy, government or individual to prevent someone from reading/hearing/seeing ANYTHING.
I’ve come to the following conclusion about what you must be to be “a liberal”. Three things:
- Easily mislead by false statistics because they play to your emotions
- Selfish, solutions always fall at the feet of somebody else, either the “rich” or the “government” but never the liberal proposing the solution.
- An atheist. This is the one that leads to all kinds of confusion, including that “Christianity is as bad as Islam”.
Put all three together and you get somebody that means well but is completely disconnected with reality and what works....a gullible bleeding heart that doesn’t understand economics and is devoid of contrasting various ethics systems. It’s a nightmare.
They have nothing to do with classic liberalism, I refuse to call them “liberals”. They are “progressives” but considering their positions I can only label them “regressives” because that’s, ultimately, where their policies would take us. They reject everything that has been woven into our fabric of society and enabled us to reach where we are (which is Judeo-Christian ethics).