One of the essential insights of conservatism is that tradition provides a storehouse of knowledge, developed by trial & error over a number of observations too vast for scientific study, of matters of human nature & experience that we can't depend on science to replicate.
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The onus is on those who believe that social cohesion is real and important to provide evidence for it. Heck, I’d settle for a definition that is falsifiable.
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Incidentally, the parts of this country with the strongest high-level measures I would look for in assessing "social cohesion" (low rates of immigration, high ethnic homogeneity, etc) tend to be less economically successful than the low cohesion major metros.
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Drill down a couple of layers and social cohesion is why a dude will accept a piece of plastic from a stranger for a chicken sandwich knowing the firm issuing the plastic will pay him; because the firm issuing the plastic knows it can collect back from its customers
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If credit card customers stiffed issuers and courts didn’t penalize them for it; this superficially seamless economy would sputter quite quickly
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Social cohesion is an abstract social science concept that relates to a dozen+ behaviors that conflict. It’s useless as a policy goal.
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tRump "ordered" us companies to stop doing business with a foreign company. Your silence on this is astounding. Where are your precious "conservative" principles on govt interfering with free enterprise?
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