Questions For Conservatives
Response to
comment [from a Christian]:
"1. Why do so many conservatives care so much more about the rights and feelings
of a developing fetus that hasn't even become fully cognizant, yet, than they do
about the rights and feelings of the mother who may have become impregnated by a
violent traumatic assault, or even forced incest?
2. Why do so many conservatives automatically prefer the recourse of violence?
For example, conservatives are typically the most hawkish when it comes to
declaring war or supporting increased military spending for armaments, on
capital punishment even for crimes that didn't involve death, and on the use of
deadly force in defense of property?
3. Why do so many conservatives automatically side with business interests
regarding any issue where the profit motive conflicts with the safety,
treatment, or wages of employees, with environmental issues, with governmental
oversight, and regarding lawsuits and litigation?
4 a. Why do so many conservatives support a "winner-take-all" ideology in both
politics and economics rather than a more social/humanist ideology. I am
especially puzzled about this regarding religious conservatives. Why do so many
conservatives want there to be winners and losers in life, and want those
'losers' to suffer for it?
- b. Why do so many conservatives prefer competition between people rather than
cooperation?
5. Why do so many conservatives automatically assume that everything the
government does is either wrong, bad, dishonest or evil? The fact is that if we
eliminated government we would immediately fall into a state of lawless chaos
that would result in the suffering a deaths of hundreds of millions of people
around the world. Even most bad governments are better than none at all. Yet it
seems most conservatives want as little government as possible.
Do any of you see a common thread running through these general observations
that might help identify a 'conservative essence, or nature'?"
Eccl 10:2,
Jn 10:10
See:
The Plot (an overview of the Bible) by Bob Enyart
