RE: Right and left liberal and conservative

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 19:08:12 MDT

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    John Clark writes

    > This right-left liberal- conservative thing has always
    > confused me, [yeah, sure] conservatives are supposed to
    > be in favor of Low taxes and preventing women from having
    > abortions but what does one have to do with the other?

    That's the interesting question; there are answers, but you
    may find them boring.

    > It’s the same with wanting rigid anti drug laws and school
    > vouchers too, I just don’t see why it has to be a package
    > deal. Liberals have a similar problem, if you want fewer
    > restrictions on pornography you must be a liberal and want
    > more welfare too;

    You "must" be? No, as you know, there is no causality here.
    Nor is there even much logic. What we have are intense
    correlations that survive over multiple generations, even
    hundreds of years. It's a true "Conflict of Visions" (the
    name of a book written by Thomas Sowell, one of the few
    people who really attempts to address the phenomenon).
    Have you read it?

    Very few people are actually interesting in trying to deeply
    understand what is going on. Most of them, like I think you
    (judging from the tone of your writing), aren't really interested
    in the phenomenon, and just complain like that to make a point.

    The usual translation of the point is, "I am above such
    mediocre limitations".

    Yes, sigh, it's true that many libertarians, and no small
    number of independent thinkers do not fit very well into
    the usual camps.

    Lee



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