Would it be true to say that a coherent liberal is someone who looks forward to the possibility of being a conservative? Bear with me.
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Or, they're someone who doesn't think that they have somehow arrived at the end of their development. I hope to always change and improve.
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I hope we all do. That doesn't relate to what I have said tho, does it. You don't hope to change for the sake of change, do you?
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No. But I do look around me and seek information that challenges my positions. I hope I don't get to the point where I say, "we're done."
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Maybe I misunderstood your point. Perhaps you mean becoming conservative in terms of preserving the incremental advancement we make. I agree
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This is what we preserve. Women have the same rights as men! Stop now. Don't continue and demand more rights than men.
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This doesn't mean that there won't be different things that will come up which will make us have to think how gender equality will work.
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We will always be working out how to apply that principle of gender equality & changing minds on how to do it.
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Agree generally. But, for a liberal, utopia (perfect equality etc) is impossible. Therefore, they will chase the horizon forever.
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I don't think so. I think we're pretty much there & the liberal tradition is something we'll need to conserve &so could then be conservative
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But, you have Trump in charge, and aren't the liberals still crying about patriarchy, Islamophobia, etc? Seems there's a long way to go
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Well, I'm not crying about either. I'm talking about conserving liberal democracy against far left & far right. Is that conservative?
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What if one's values and goals include being open to having one's values and goals challenged and changed, even by those younger than you?
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Well, I hope they do.
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> being a forward thinking individual. Regardless of my personal place in society.
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> "progressive" until they get to a point where they are, personally comfortable then they want things to stop. I never want to stop >
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This is a good question. I think I see it as a journey and I expect our values will adjust over time as we optimize them.
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Im a transhumanist, though, so my form of progressivism is probably more extreme than most.
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makes sense.
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I oppose tradition as a sole reason for continuing to do something or to do it in a certain way.
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