What do conservatives do when they find two rights?
It's a great situation to be in. Make the correct choice, of course<g>
And what about the conservatives who cheat on their income taxes.
It happens, no doubt about it. But in my years of tax practice, I was acutely aware that conservatives tended to want to go by the book -- they'd complain about the taxes, how much they had to pay, etc., but when it came down to it, they would insist on not pushing the limits.
Liberals, on the other hand, would try to bend the rules. To take it a step further, I once had a liberal partner. It was a huge problem for me to monitor him to be sure he didn't allow his clients to cross the line. It wasn't intentional, he just couldn't distinguish where the line was sometimes. It wasn't a lack of knowledge, but he could take an issue that had an apparent problem, and rationalize it into a solution that was inappropriate.
Unfortunately, the world can not always be defined that way.
You are, of course, correct about this. However, most issues can be visualized in such a way that the right and wrong of it is apparent. A great example is the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Talk about "gray area"! No black and white there, right? Wrong. There is black and white. The suicide bombings are wrong -- so much wrong that they crystalize for conservatives who is in the wrong. Most conservatives will admit there is some wrong on both sides, but the wrong of the suicide bombings is so outrageous that you can't even discuss the situation until that stops. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to have a more difficult time resolving what is wrong, coming up with a vision of how the Palestinians have been mistreated, etc. IT DOESN'T MATTER; there can be no justification for Arafat's actions.
Can conservatives be wrong? Of course. But by establishing clear, inviolate moral guidelines between right and wrong, you don't end up with people proclaiming that "it is okay to lie under oath, so long as it is about sex" or "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is', is". It is NEVER okay to lie under oath, and "is" means what "is" means, everytime.
I think it is a fairly simple concept. |
