Why are conservatives so against abortion and stem cell research but they LOVE guns, war, and death??

Answer 1

'Cause we are a nation full of hypocrites.

Answer 2

I am a Conservative and I am not against stem cell research but I AM against abortions.
I do not LOVE war but feel in order to preserve our way of life (liberty and freedom) we must fight.
Guns - my dad was a cop and I grew up around them. So what? Guns do not kill - people CHOOSE to use guns to kill. Just like abortions are a CHOSEN way to kill.
Death - no one is FOR death - it is just inevitable.

Answer 3

You're dead wrong about conservatives loving guns and war and death. You are only repeating what some ill-informed knucklehead has told you. You could not be more wrong. Read a little history, my friend. In this country conservatives have pretty much all been opposed to American foreign wars. We were opposed to WWI, WWII, and Vietnam, for example. All of these were wars started by Democrats. Even our Civil War was started by Democrats. Lincoln didn't fire on Fort Sumter, southern Democrats did. As far as the Iraq thing goes, I'm a conservative and I wouldn't have gone in there. All Arabs are crazy and killing is in their DNA. It's what they do for sport. On the other hand, we just lost 3,000 innocent people in a terrorist attack that originated in that area. As president, what would you do? Ignore it until we lose a football stadium? San Francisco? Don't blame conservatives. We are cautious by nature. If you're in any way interested, read about how LBJ lied about the Gulf of Tonkin and sent a whole lot of my friends over there that never came back. I'm a conservative and managed to weasel my way out of the draft. Something I'm rather proud of. These idiot Democrats wanted to kill me. Johnson sucks! (Oh yeah, don't confuse "neocons" with conservatives. Different breed of cat entirely. That's like saying all liberals are Communists)

Answer 4

Guns are protected by the Constitution. Wars are provided for in the Constitution - Congress declares them remember. Death is inevitable - just like taxes (more of them if you're a Democrat). So why is life not sacred to Democrats. Why is it so easy to abandon morals and ethics and unborn children. Some can argue that LIFE is also protected by the Constitution! Why is the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness such a foreign concept to you? There is no moral equivalent between war and abortion.

Answer 5

Hehe. This is a question that often baffles many liberals. How can conservatives claim to be "pro-life" and yet the are the greatest champions of death (particularly that they tend to usually be pro-war and favor the death penalty).

The answer is really quite simple. Conservatives do not value life per se, and they do not see all human beings as being worthy of life. They only see "good" human beings as being worthy of life, and that sometimes translates to human beings who are more or less like them (of their beliefs, from their society/culture, etc)!

So they are pro-war and pro-death penalty, because those are things you do to the "bad" human beings.

But with abortion, we don't yet know if the yet to be born baby is "good" or "bad"! (Something tells me conservatives wouldn't be as against having legalized abortion in Iran.) So, in their minds, abortion is like randomly shooting people on the street, you may be killing a very good person!

So conservatives aren't really pro-life in the sense that they see all life as sacred, the way liberals tend to. They tend to think in moral good/bad terms, and see life as a struggle of good versus evil as fixed qualities of the universe (God versus Satan). That is, they tend to think that there is a good half of life, and a bad half of life, both equally real parts of life, and the bad half needs to be destroyed. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to see all of life as essentially good, and the bad part of life as more like shadows over a beautiful painting, which block the goodness from being seen. Liberals tend to believe that if you honor the good in people and things, that good will rise to the surface. Evil is a kind of "covering up" of the good for liberals, which is why most liberals believe that social conditions and upbringing are mostly responsible for suffering and evil. Conservatives don't tend to believe that, they just see the soul as either naturally good, or naturally bad.

In otherwords, liberals are essentially shifting toward seeing what makes life sacred is consciousness. The more liberal you are, the more you place emphasis on the subjective, I think, as the essential important thing in life. A human being is more important than an ant because a human being is more conscious. But an ant too has some consciousness, and therefore is also important. Liberals tend to be pro-choice because, for one reason among many, they don't consider the unborn infant yet conscious.

Conservatives don't think this way, they tend to see what is important in life is the moral struggle between good and evil. Therefore, an ant is insignificant, because it does not make moral choices. A murderer is also insignificant, because they made the wrong moral choices. But an unborn child is significant because it represents someone who will someday make moral choices, but has not yet done so. So if we kill him/her, we might be killing someone who would have been good, and being a "good" person is the most important thing from a conservative point of view.

Of course, many people fall in between conservative and liberal, and these people will tend to share a bit of both orientations, a part of them beginning to be aware that consciousness is what is important, a part of them still focused on what the person does.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

because abortion is murder.we don't love guns,war or death,but am for the right to have guns,use them in ways that are legal.AS far as war is concerned even your liberal friends voted for the war in the beginning they just don't have the integrity to finish anything they start

Answer 7

Yeah, curious, huh? I think because they are crusaders -- religious ones who think they have been given the truth. As such they feel they have to foist their ideas on everyone they can. As a group, they usually include the rather wealthy. Keeping the working population poor is in their best interests, so they are usually against abortion (It is the poor who have the most children, and poor who have to work at poor paying jobs.....), and wars are now over energy, the energy that runs their companies. But who fights in those wars??? The poor. You don't see George's daughters flying heliocopters, do you???? and they are perfectly capable of doing so. The draft is, at present not used, because it would apply to everyone, even wealthy families. But the National Guard are usually from poor families who are using it as a way to get an education --- they just get called up to go to war in this case.

Answer 8

A similar question could be asked. Why do liberals support the right to kill babies, yet fight tooth and nail against the death penalty for convicted murderers?

Answer 9

We fight wars because the other side is trying to kill us or have you forgotten 9/11. the unborn babies you so casually kill with an abortion--exactly how have they attacked you. The military is not made up of just the "poor"--they are heroes who deserve our thanks instead of liberals scorn.

Answer 10

its not so much guns war and death we like, its haveing the ability to maintain a pulse that we like, and if someone is bound and determined to kill you, no amount of hugs is going to change his mind. but removing his pulse before he removes yours works every time.

Answer 11

preserving the quality of a woman's life, and improving the quality of infirmed patients' lives is far different from killing in war or with guns. Now does it make sense?