I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

  • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Conservative makes no sense. It’s not changing for the sake of lot changing.

    I agree with this part completely.

    Liberalism is the same, it’s change for changes sake.

    Where is this coming from though?

    Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

    It doesn’t have anything to do with randomly changing stuff just for change’s sake.

    To be fair, we can look at the Wikipedia definition for conservatism too and see if there’s a more charitable way to interpret it:

    Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism

    I’d say the answer is basically no: this is just an indirect way to say “appeal to tradition fallacy”.

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      1 year ago

      If you think about it in terms of species adaptation, then liberalism is what allows our society to integrate changes and conservatism is what helps maintain stability. We need both and in different proportions at different times to adapt to our constantly changing social and physical environment.