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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I follow the philosophy of Edmund Burke in terms of valuing the conservative approach of preserving systems and institutions.
People often talk about Calvin, Hobbes, and Voltaire but Burke is often forgotten. His famous work, "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is an argument for preserving institutions, even if people don't necessarily see the immediate value for them but institutions are the foundation for the traditions and stability in our legal and political systems. Throwing out your institutions and trying to reinvent traditions that worked for hundreds of years results in chaos, inequity, and bloodshed like what was seen in the Reign of Terror in France or post-Soviet Russia (consequences of which we are seeing even today).
I fully support the continuation of the Monarchy as part of the institution of the 1000 year history of the political systems and legal systems Canada and other Commonwealth realms have inherited that follow much more historical convention than statute than people realize. People talk about the financial burden of maintaining the Monarchy but the entire system generates a return on investment in tourism and other factors for the UK that outweighs what is put in to support that one family. Preservation of some traditions are important, even if it flies in the face of some modern sensibilities.
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We have changed every institution over and over again, Burke was wrong, utterly wrong on this mostly because he could not conceive of peaceful change, we, both Canada and the UK can remove the monarchy with no instability, the Cavaliers arent going to be riding down Kingsway or the Mall, the monarchy is a historically irrelevant institution that will one day soon cease to exist, sooner in Canada where the idea of a foreign monarch is truly absurd, but also in the UK because the very idea that there is a family that is magically better than the rest of us that we have to worship like some demi god is palpable nonsense, particularly when that family contains an utter nonce like Andrew