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To: SeekAndFind

My guess is most posts here will confirm his opening statement by replying to the title.


15 posted on 06/04/2015 11:57:05 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Jolla
My guess is most posts here will confirm his opening statement by replying to the title.

My guess is the author of this tripe and yourself are not conservatives, maybe Libertarian, but certainly not conservative.
20 posted on 06/04/2015 11:58:33 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Jolla
My guess is most posts here will confirm his opening statement by replying to the title.

As opposed to replying to the tripe in the body? His entire point, or at least until I gave up on him around the 5th paragraph is that because the founding fathers initiated radical change that all conservatives should embrace radical change. Carl Marx initiated radical change as well and look how that turned out. Not all change is for the better. If this guy thinks he is conservative he better check his premises.

42 posted on 06/04/2015 12:14:04 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Jolla; EternalVigilance; Mr. Dough
Good call.

I think he's not really a conservative but rather a Libertarian. The taxonomy can be confusing.

I think Libertarianism ends up being as incoherent as a lot of liberal/progressive thought is. “Freedom” when indistinguishable from things like “whim” and “choice” cannot support the burden of being a political principle. It is as weak as “Diversity,” “Tolerance,” and even “Right to Privacy.”

There's the matter of Prudence. If, to gratify our whims. we put our children in debt, they will not be able to enjoy the liberty so valued by Libertarians. Similarly, if we don't provide good, supportive families for our children, their children will pay.

And I think we can at least conjecture that mix and match sexual and domestic partnering, without sacrificial service for one another and for children ends up implying state-provided caregivers for the old and frail. That's not a good outcome.

The free citizen is under an obligation to consider his own freedom. To put it another way, if our choices will trash out ability to choose, are they choices of freedom or of what? Can someone be a Libertarian if he chooses against the liberty of his parents or progeny?

Despite disagreements, I think humans are oriented toward the QUESTION of justice, and justice is OF the essence of government. So I don't think it is sufficient to try to divide life, notably family life, into crisp categories of public and private. Neither experience nor reason (upon reflection) supports the notion that how we have orgasms does not affect life beyond the place and time of those orgasms.

So, I don't think this kind of Libertarianism can stand up to the task of government.

68 posted on 06/04/2015 12:56:30 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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