T or F: Your feelings about abortion,death penalty,euthanasia determine whether you are liberal or conservativ

Question

Your solution of population control, life or death, is determined by your genetic make up. After genetics makes the final decision, logic is used to support it.

Can this statement be proven false?
All the statement made, which are excellent, are the result of genetic makeup and logic is being used to support it.

Genetics rule!

Genetics rule, everything else is an illusion.

Answer 1

True, assuming you either take a conservative stance on most or all of the issues, or a liberal one. However, genetics is hardly the defining factor, in all of it. The role of genetics is more absolute in physical attributes. Your (natural) hair color, eye color, height, build...much of that is determined solely by your genes. While I won't deny that genetics may have some amount of influence on your personality, any effects your genes have are, more often than not, largely overwhlemed by your experiences and resulting development. Your attitude and behavior, for the most part, comes from external factors, not your DNA.

Answer 2

Hmm. It doesn't sound like the sort of thing that's genetically determined. It's possible: a lot more behaviour IS genetic than is popularly supposed, but these issues sound like personal, experience and indoctrination-based ones.

Conservatism is theoretically based on the notion that the status quo should be maintained, and that change is risky. Liberalism is pretty much the inverse of that. Both are right in different circumstances.

But real-world conservatism and liberalism come with a whole pile of baggage about use of wealth, importance of tradition, embracing new ideas and so on. These tend to spill over into specific issues like abortion, religion, patriotism and so on.

This varies a great deal from country to country: in the US everyone seems to think that patriotism is axiomatic and something everyone must have. In the UK, serious patriots are often seen to be slightly whacky, and frequently unpleasant.

I don't think it's wise to generalise too much. It's possible to make statements about groups that will fit in some places, but they almost certainly won't be universal. Some, maybe most, atheists tend to be pro-choice, anti death penalty liberals. But with atheism perhaps more than any other religious world-view, there's really only one characteristic in common: the realisation that the God Hypothesis is false.

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Answer 3

False

I am against abortion (but feel the federal government has no Constitutional authority to legislate on it), for the death penalty(in extreme cases WITH an admission of guilt), and for physician-assisted suicide.

And yet, I am liberal. Go figure...

The difference between true liberals (this doesn't include "progressives") and conservatives is our views on the Constitutional restrictions of government power. The government is in place to do the will of the people, not the other way around.

People cannot change their genetic makeup, but can change their opinions based on new data or "a change of heart", for lack of a better term. Environment, religion, and peer groups have a much larger effect on political philosophy than a predetermined genetic code.

Conservatives tend to view everything as black and white, right or wrong. Liberals see infinite shades of grey. As an example, most conservatives view terrorism as evil - period. Most liberals view terrorism as a sometimes necessary evil (the Boston Tea Party was a terrorist act). Most conservatives view abortion as evil - period.. Most liberals view abortion as evil, unless it is used to save the life of the mother or stop an unviable pregnancy from continuing.

Answer 4

The question is really loaded since these points do not (obviously if you read some answers) define whether you are a liberal or a conservative member of our society.

A more coherant question would go

T or F Your feelings about abortion,death penalty,euthanasia determine whether you are a believer or not!!!

Maynot be precise but a damn site closer to the defining line for most of us..

Answer 5

Interesting hypothesis but I disagree. Ones solution of population control, life or death is determined by one's world view or belief system, not genetic make-up. I cannot change my DNA code at will, but I can change the way I think or what I choose to believe... and how I choose to think about abortion, death, etc. will determine my actions and ultimately my feelings.

Answer 6

False I'm liberal and against abortion fine with euthanasia and don't mind the death penalty if I could trust our courts to do a good job.

Answer 7

Your feelings about abortion etc. would certainly help define your religious and political views as being liberal or conservative, but as one other poster said, I can change my opinions, but I cannot change my DNA, so being a liberal or a conservative is not genetic.

Answer 8

I don't agree with that at all.

I was a pro-choice, feminist, liberal for about 20 years. Now I'm a pro-life, conservative, Catholic who thinks feminism has caused women to be demeaned and given them a false sense of the equality they promised.

Answer 9

False. I don't think there is an absolute definition of "liberal" or "conservative", or that those identified as either would always agree with those who share that label.

Many people's opinions on these things change and evolve during the course of their lives, anyway.

Answer 10

False.
Individual opinions do not determine anything.
Opinions are the result of an individual's value system (moral sense of right and wrong).