Posted by
Doctor Demex on Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:22:44 PM
By letting feelings trump morals (which is human survival logic),
liberals diminish the value of their contributions to society.
How the left and right view the conflict of values provides broad
insight into the difference in their approach to problems. The
interaction of partisans on each side is called a culture war by conservatives and insane right-wing racist fascist nazi hate-mongering by those on the left.
The struggle has been going on a long time and it shows no signs of
abating. The argument can be made that liberals are necessary for
cultures to "advance." Of course, not every change is an
"advance." One would think that liberals who proudly espouse
Darwin's theories would understand this. If culture is an
organism, each new liberal idea is a mutation that either makes the
society stronger or kills it. The useless mutations always
outnumber the useful ones by orders of magnitude, like liberals
themselves. There's a saying (Chinese, I believe) that expresses
the idea elegantly: "If change is not necessary, then it's necessary
not to change." (I said Chinese instead of the politically correct but insultingly meaningless Asian, because I frankly don't think the Pakistanis deserve any credit for this idea.)
Liberals will flaunt their strongest emotions and dimmest wits arguing
that the most execrable changes are necessary to correct some trumped
up bit of unfairness, like the unjust denial since human life began of
the right to marry one's pet cat with the government's blessing.
Then they will campaign to paint those who disagree with their novel
ideas radicals! "Radical Christians" is the wrong term for people who deny "Anything goes!" is one of the Ten Commandments.
When one side ignores standards of logic and reasonable rules of engagement, rational discussion is impossible.
Like the scorpion crossing the stream on the turtle's back, liberals,
by their very nature, cannot seem to refrain from insisting on their
right to kill the culture/turtle they can't live without.