I have been reading mainly books by social conservatives for the past year. I still disagree, but understand much better and empathize.
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I find that they make these strange leaps of logic that I cannot roll withhttp://examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/2003/11/dead_right.html …
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tl;dr. However, from quick skim of first part, it looks like blogger is completely missing the point of social conservatism.
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It is long. But I think very good on the link between social and political conservatism.
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Is that link this bit? That is the part that—based on my limited, outsider understanding—is entirely mistaken & missing the main ptpic.twitter.com/WbtFUMgKAs
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It's the "please shave your beard" passage that I think is most interesting
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I don’t know Frum’s work; the beard bit may be an accurate reflection of his ideas. (I kind of doubt it. But I gather Frum is >
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a “neoconservative” which is a very different thing from the social conservatives I have been reading, so maybe.
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When an idea doesn’t make sense, it’s often useful to ask “what would the world have to be like in order for this to seem true?”
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For most of my life I couldn’t imagine a world in which social conservativism made sense.
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Now I can, and I think it’s in fact the real world that roughly 30% of Americans live in. I’ve explained my understanding (probably
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quite inadequately) at https://meaningness.com/the-personal-is-political#large … . Soc-con is a structure for preventing severe social dysfunction among a group for>
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>whom that is not only a genuine danger but an actual choice. Reading first-person accounts makes this intuitive.
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