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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Ya, having a conscience sucks . It's just easier to have a " #### everyone else I come first " conservative attitude.
It is easy to be selfish but to actually think about others is taxing (no pun intended)and outside of our natural train of thought.......
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This rant is certainly insightful to your state of mind, and what you believe a conservatives state of mind is, so thank you for that.
However it is profoundly wrong. You haven't yet realized that people, including conservatives, are quite compassionate, it is the means to help the most people that is difference. It is a different philosophy on making a better society. It is NOT that a fiscal conservative doesn't care, and you're going to be much better off the sooner you realize that, than having to hang your political views on demonizing an alternative one.
In really simple terms, compare it to parenting styles, 2 families both with the same amount of money.
One family gives their kids everything they want, even if they can't afford it. As they get older, the parents pay for cell phones, buy them cars, then pay for a condo to move into. Besides the precarious financial position it puts the family in, the kids now think that the parents will always take care of them. Because the parents have compassion and care, right?
The other family teaches hard work and responsibility, the kids get allowances for work they do, they have to get jobs in order to buy themselves things like cell phones and cars. The kids hopefully learn that if they want things, they will work to get it themselves, not just wait for the parents or government to take care of them.
The second set of parents care, and have as much compassion, as the first set, but they have very different philosophies on what will raise the happiest, healthiest, strongest adults. But they both care very much.
I won't get deeper into this now, other than to urge you to try to understand that conservatism vs. Socialism/liberalism isn't about caring vs. Not caring, it is about the best way to achieve the best environment for the most people.
The idea of taking from anyone who has more, and giving that to whoever has less, so that everyone ends up at the same spot in the middle seems like a simple solution, except for a whole bunch of reasons, it doesn't work. You end up failing many of the people that you were trying to help.