Wakeforest22890
Snowpom
Maybe one day you might get to find out what the practice of law is like. Maybe.
Probably will continue to add to my knowledge since that's how the world generally works.
Maybe one day you might get to find out what the practice of law is like. Maybe.
Probably will continue to add to my knowledge since that's how the world generally works.
I wouldn't normally consider celibacy to be a liberal viewpoint since it's generally based upon doctrines established as the status quo over the past 2,000 years but there are probably instances where it could be liberal (although I don't know enough about the Anabaptists and departures from the religious norms at those times to really know if celibacy in those cases was viewed as a liberal stance broadly by society).
Polygamy is probably a good example although I wouldn't be surprised if in 500 years polygamy has been somewhat more normalized. Good points on semantics between "liberal" and "conservative" positions. I was thinking more recent American history and so your examples definitely make it a more difficult distinction. With recent history, the social divide between a "liberal" and "conservative" position has been relatively easy to distinguish since the "liberal" side is generally correlated with expanding individual rights and the "conservative" side is generally correlated with restricting individual rights.
By those definitions though within certain segments of the population (like religious sects) the expansion of rights for celibacy broadly beyond the religious doctrine would certainly be liberal within that group, but not really a socially liberal idea at broad when applied to the rest of society.
I wouldn't normally consider celibacy to be a liberal viewpoint since it's generally based upon doctrines established as the status quo over the past 2,000 years but there are probably instances where it could be liberal (although I don't know enough about the Anabaptists and departures from the religious norms at those times to really know if celibacy in those cases was viewed as a liberal stance broadly by society).
Polygamy is probably a good example although I wouldn't be surprised if in 500 years polygamy has been somewhat more normalized. Good points on semantics between "liberal" and "conservative" positions. I was thinking more recent American history and so your examples definitely make it a more difficult distinction. With recent history, the social divide between a "liberal" and "conservative" position has been relatively easy to distinguish since the "liberal" side is generally correlated with expanding individual rights and the "conservative" side is generally correlated with restricting individual rights.
By those definitions though within certain segments of the population (like religious sects) the expansion of rights for celibacy broadly beyond the religious doctrine would certainly be liberal within that group, but not really a socially liberal idea at broad when applied to the rest of society.
I didn't say that the liberal position is undefeated, I said I can't personally think of an example of where the socially conservative view has prevailed in the long run as being what was generally accepted as the "better" position by society when looking back.
I still can't think of one. It doesn't mean they don't exist, it means I'm legitimately asking for guidance or an answer and every single post you've made on the topic JHMD has been nearly entirely unresponsive.
Again I cringe to think about opposing attorneys having to sort through your responses to interrogatories or your answers to pleadings.
He's not saying that he doesn't see your argument about abortion (although he may not - you haven't really expanded on your own beliefs at all), I believe he's saying that you haven't made a responsive argument to the original question so you couldn't possibly have invalidated the point.
communism
Wait, what? So the liberal side is to expand my right to choose my own healthcare or, heaven forbid, keep a prior plan that I was happy with? Or expand my right to own guns? Or, wait for it, hire (or not hire) who I want to hire (or not hire) for my business? Or expanding the right of an individual to keep more of his own money as opposed to taking it via taxes to redistribute?
What has caused welfare to fail?
Likely, it has something to do with a lack of social mobility from the lower to the middle or out of the middle class, whether that's access to equal education (from early childhood through higher ed), unequal housing practices, regressive tax policy...you know...conservative ideas.
What has caused welfare to fail?
Likely, it has something to do with a lack of social mobility from the lower to the middle or out of the middle class, whether that's access to equal education (from early childhood through higher ed), unequal housing practices, regressive tax policy...you know...conservative ideas.
nothing would be finer than to drop welfare/food stamps/etc altogether and watch the bankers and billionaire class shit their breeches as the American poor and working classes come for their fair wage for a fair days work. hilarious
If stupid breeds stupid then what is yanking on the bootstraps going to do for kids of stupid people? Seems like it would be in vain since they're still stupid.
You really believe that silly stuff don't you?