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So how about j, he shifting left on morals, or staying a steadfast Puritan?
I'm a recovering leftist.
The one that surprises me a bit is divorce - only 20% see it as morally wrong.
I'd have figured more like 50-50 split. Also, pretty shocked a majority think doctor assisted suicide is morally OK.
Oh dear, I'm sorry. From one extreme to the other. I would have never brought it up.
Nope, no extremes. Though I guess it could look that way to people on the extremes.
as the saying goes.
If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain.
That makes no sense whatsoever. You moved from the leftist to the rightist. Should have stopped in the middle.
That makes no sense whatsoever. You moved from the leftist to the rightist. Should have stopped in the middle.
STOP IN THE MIDDLE? Gasp! that would have put him with the likes of Presidents Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt.Cant have that.:shock:
I'm not "rightist", and I wasn't all the way to the left either. If your premise here is that we need to both agree that you are in the middle then let's stop now.
I'm not "rightist", and I wasn't all the way to the left either. If your premise here is that we need to both agree that you are in the middle then let's stop now.
I dont know.In todays America,if someone says their "Slightly LiberaL",dont you think that they would at least have a nose in the middle tent?:mrgreen:
that is because they haven't grown up yet to see the consequences of some of these actions.
I'd agree with that to an extent. But you won't stop the phenomena of the influence of the socially conservative traditional upper class values fading in America as less and less Americans have interactions with the top 10%. The average American has never had any close interactions with any American of the top 10% and it shows. They live in the moment. No concept of savings. No real bedrock of social conservatism. No guiding force in their lives. No real bedrock ideology of any kind (even traditional Leftist ideology escapes them). Garden variety liberalism. They see social conservatism as simply "views" and not an actual way of life primarily because they've never met the American upper class who lives such lifestyles. The average American lives in the moment completely. Then again maybe we're ironically getting back to where the founders wanted us at. A point where an elite few wealthy landowners ran everything on a very strict socially conservative ideology from behind the scenes. I'd say we're already there.
I am far from the top 10%. you don't need to belong to them to understand the difference between moral and immoral actions.
they will learn the hard way later in life when they are broke have no money and no retirement.
as I said they haven't grown up enough to learn the consequences of actions and I blame the parents. parents do not teach their kids to be responsible for their actions.
it is always someone else's fault.
Divorce, as a concept, is negative for example. It's something that, as a society, we should strive not to have in a hypothetical world. Not because people are trapped in unhappy marriages, but rather because people should be in happy ones. Now naturally, that's impossible to achieve, and thus I divorce is necessary and I don't feel like it's "immoral" to get one. But in a general sense, you'd like to see less than more of this.
as the saying goes.
If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain.
I bet you think so considering it reflects a reality you would love to ignore. Btw, yeah, that Churchill, a real dumb bunny. :lamo
Except Churchill didn't say it.
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Swing and a miss.
What "reality"? Why should I, now that I'm over 35, be against gay marriage, something that does not affect my life in any way? People who parrot that borderline retarded fake Churchill quote simply cannot comprehend why others are not as reactionary as they are, so they simply assume it's an age thing.
You're correct, you're going against heavier weights intelligence wise than Churchill:
If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain | Quote Investigator
And that last bit is utter nonsense. The reality is, the young who have not experienced real workaday life first hand and personal become much more conservative in their views once they have gained some experience. Not everyone of course. Some remain ignorant their entire lives and haven't the sense God gave a turnip.
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