Would you agree with this statement.

Question

Firewoman,

How do you reconcile having convictions then. Surely you must have beliefs that immutable.

Answer 1

Just the opposite: Liberals look for Golden Rule where Conservatives look for loopholes to get gold.

Answer 2

I believe if someone is totally liberal or totally conservative then they are trying to think with a closed mind. I do not agree with the statement. The only immutable thinking I have is that I will live and I will die. This if fact and cannot be changed. I believe in listening actually hearing and discussing the other side of my beliefs. If we are so closed minded that we can't or refuse to hear and listen and learn then we are doomed as a people.

Answer 3

I think that right and wrong in that question should be changed to moral and immoral. I also believe that what is immoral should be illegal, and what is moral should be legal.

Answer 4

I would say that sums it up pretty well.  Liberals are more concerned with what people CAN do and not what they SHOULD do.  Where as conservatives clearly beleive in right and wrong.  For example, how many single mothers under the age of 25 with two or more kids from multiple men, collecting welfare, with live in boyfriends or who live with their divorced parents do you know who are conservatives?  

Answer 5

In general yes.  Of course there are exceptions.  But that is why it is generalization.  I'm not thinking Republican or Democrat, BTW.  And not classical liberal, but social liberal.  The difference is that if you believe in right and wrong is the priority, you believe in negative liberty, the absence of barriers to freedom, freedom that is inherent.  If you believe in legal and illegal as the higher priority, then you believe that freedom is granted, and therefore a positive liberty, and an illegal act is inherently wrong.  That doesn't mean all legal acts are right, just not illegal.  I believe in negative liberty.

And this doesn't mean I think breaking the law because it contradicts a right means I advocate chaos or even illegal acts.  If in the right moral course I break a law, then I should face the consequences.

Answer 6

I think a better way to say it is that conservatives believe in absolutes, whereas liberals do not.  I am liberal and I have a very right and wrong way of thinking, but I don't expect everyone to agree with me or to hold the same beliefs as conservatives do.

Answer 7

No. I don't agree. It is a generalization based on nothing factual. Pure propaganda.

Answer 8

Sounds about right to me.

Answer 9

no I dont agree.the problem with being totally conservative or totally liberal is that one tends to not at least listen with an open mind to different points of view.after awhile,using that approach,your credibility when giving a political opinion goes way down.