The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91375 Message #1740987
Posted By: John Hardly
15-May-06 - 12:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Defining terms: Liberal/Conservative
Subject: RE: BS: Defining terms: Liberal/Conservative
"And I still would like to hear a list of qualities that you love and see typified in the conservative."
A worthy, strong desire and pursuit of personal responsibility.
A very strong sense that Government's care doesn't diminish the need to care for those in ones immediate sphere of influence.
A good sense of the good in order. That's not conformity for its own sake (which I think that the liberal rightly fears) -- rather, not dismissing order as something "beneath my dignity".
A good sense of justice -- a proper understanding of its function improved by being "blind".
A good sense of the proper dignity of man. (I so often find Liberals backing accidentally into, for example, the racism implied in affirmative action -- a racism that assumes one race weaker than another and in need of a boost)
A better capacity for judging its own than the liberal.