While I identify with the motives of Liberals, such as the desire to help your fellow man. I find it hard to impose my values on anyone else. One example: increasing taxes to pay for social progams that would benefit others. I would be embarssed to accept something for which I did not work for it.
2007-12-31 11:16:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
This is very common, and, if anything, a rational viewpoint. Not because it favors conservatism or liberalism, but because you don't want to impose on others that which you would not want to be imposed on you, or even just your own views.
2007-12-31 11:23:56 · answer #1 · answered by Oh that guy. 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In regards to "gay rights," my legislative "feelings" are liberal, but my judicial training is conservative. In other words, I want for legislatures to make new laws which will guarantee gay people equal rights in all circumstances. But I do NOT want for courts to do what they did in Romer v. Evans, Lawrence v. Texas, and Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health.
2007-12-31 20:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do! I just wish that if the perfect candidate came around he would win.
2007-12-31 20:26:15 · answer #3 · answered by Pablo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go libertarian, the fundamental principles
2007-12-31 20:00:54 · answer #4 · answered by free will illusion 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your heart will go along with your brain if you do some basic reading on the topic of economics.
You will find that the best way to help your fellow man is through allowing a free market to provide the highest possible standard of living to your country.
As a starting point I would like to recommend "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. It is a great way to learn about how a free market provides for everyone without having to wade through charts and math.
Dr. Sowell is a former Marxist who is now one of the leading minds behind free market economics.
2007-12-31 19:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by eat me hillary 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why embarrassing? What if you are disabled or sick? What if you wanted to kick your drug or alcohol habit and start a new life? What if you and your wife didn't have enough $$$ for marriage counseling?
does any rational person choose drunks and wife-beaters and people dying in the streets to give a few bucks?
I don't get this reasoning, even in terms of dry economics.
We ALL end up paying for society's ills anyway, might as well throw the least amount of money at them.
So buy denying any aid to people, we aren't really just punishing them, we are punishing ourselves with all the hidden costs of coping with a worse situation.
$40K to put a 16 year in jail for a year, $20K to send him to a secular boot camp and get him a GED. Why not, even if he doesn't "deserve it". The kid isn't going away. Sooner or later we have to deal with it. Could we just be Nazis and execute the dregs of society? Sure! You want that?
This type of thinking, that is, based more on economic reality, can bridge social judgments or liberal or conservative points of view, and just get pragmatic about it.
Naturally, we aren't talking here about frauds, cheats and scammers. We are talking about people who either a) genuinely need or seek help or b) people who can be turned around while they are still young enough.
Some people need to be locked up and some will kill themselves no matter what. Can't help those, I agree.
2007-12-31 19:37:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I know what you mean. Don't let the age fool you.
2007-12-31 19:25:37 · answer #7 · answered by CandyCane~SC 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marry someone with Hillary head and Duncan Hunters body.
2007-12-31 19:25:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's called Independent Thinking.
2007-12-31 19:21:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
don't be liberal or conservative. be libertarian.
2007-12-31 19:20:22 · answer #10 · answered by White 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋