This is *exactly* why I'm not prepared to debate this topic until we have an agreed definition of the term. Social conservatism is not, to my mind, "far-right" per se. Neither is fiscal conservatism.
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It also depends on the merit of the case itself - as, for example, gun control in the USA is something totally different than gun control for instance in Germany. There is a reality behind the debate that has totally different starting points in different countries.
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Yes, this is a huge issue. If I could snap my fingers and make all America's guns disappear and then it would have same norms and presence of guns as UK, I would. That can't happen coz of the guns already there and the long history of them being a right and much tied into this.
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This also means the political viewpoint would change on it if we wanted to talk about it as a "far-right" view. - I think the label of far-right is applied much too wide. Far-right & far-left (both in extremes) want the same things, just with different justifications... (imo)
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I don't think it counts as a far-right view.
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And that depends on the definition of "far-right" (to go full circle here) - Just saw today a flyer that was in a school, that argues the GOP is essentially the same as Nazis in Germany in 1939. With a comparison of (Strawmen-) viewpoints...
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Yes, we all know that 'far-right' can be used wrongly - not to describe extremist fringes. I'd still like to talk about the most extreme rightwing views tho & am currently saying that they are giving me less to get my teeth into than extreme leftwing views.
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Really? - Can you give me one or two examples? I find both extremes very easy to dismantle with science... - both try to ignore science. I do admit that right wing just dismisses science and left wing try to circumvent it with word games, but in the end, denial is denial...
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Huh? We seem to be at cross-purposes here. Yes, they both deny science. My examples will be of theories which do that which I can get my teeth into. I think you think I am arguing something I am not.
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no no, no argument - just thought you give examples of things like far-right & far-left viewpoints, nothing more :)
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OK, well, them both being dismantlable by science says nothing about whether or not I am finding more ideological and theoretical depth to study on the left than I am on the right which is my reason for focusing more on the left than the right.
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