Usually when someone accuses me of wanting to push liberal views on them, they mean I want to stop them imposing conservative ones on others
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Coz my liberal perspective leads me to defend the rights of conservatives to express & live according to very conservative views.
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If I were to genuinely try to impose my views on others, conservativism & religion & large sections of social justice activism wld be banned
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That would be illiberal. Ppl calling themselves liberal but not applying this principle to their own values seem very confused to me.
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I remember a conversation we had once. We can push our liberal values in some way. It's a bit of a paradox. Think speech, abortion etc.
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Pushing anyone to say or not say anything, to have or not have abortions is not liberal. No-one is pushed by other ppl having same choice.
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True. But we base laws on them. Example: man is conservative, woman liberal. Woman wishes not to keep baby. Man does. Law agrees with her
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But because the embryo is in her not coz she's liberal. The same would apply if she were conservative & wanted to keep baby but man didn't.
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There will always be dominant values. A liberal society will defend the rights of minority ones to be expressed & lived by.
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As long as you have the right to ignore them and express & live by you're own values, we're still living in a liberal society.
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Those can't be ignored. That impacts your life. If 'liberals' prevent you from expressing & living by your own values, they are illiberal
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This is my point completely.
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I don't think of liberals/conservatives as being truly liberal/conservative in pure sense of the words - they're more labels for Left/Right
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do i have your permission to print that on t-shirts?
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I'm going to make you do exactly what you want?
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We need to take back the term liberal from illiberal appropriators!
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To me, being liberal entails the assertion that others possess the same rights as oneself. Some might call this imposing values, but Is it?
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Depends on if you mean positive rights or negative rights.
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You think that would make a difference with regard to the question?
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