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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Generally, I view conservative values as high-scarcity, survival-oriented; designed to help cultures thrive when pressure is high. Liberal values are low-scarcity, and help people thrive when pressure is low. We're privileged to be able to hold liberal values.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
It is privileged to think people should have access to health care without paying for it. In high pressure societies there's not a ton of excess to be able to outright care for each other to that degree.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Sure, but I'm saying if you're coming from a place of low scarcity, you had to develop intense self reliant values to survive, and it seems unlikely you're gonna suddenly abandon those hard-earned values when asked to vote on healthcare for everyone else
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@Stephan_Kyle
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@Aella_Girl
Unless you are empathetic to people struggling and want them to have it easier than you did? Should society not continually strive to make life easier for future generations? Would a utopian society not be one where survival (if not life in general) easy?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Stephan_Kyle
Yeah, but I think in their mind, empathy for future generations takes the form of teaching them to be self reliant, because in their mind that's what leads to thriving - and in many ways they're often correct about this.
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