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Topic	I figured out what is wrong with reddits entire belief system.
Clench281 10/20/19 12:32:05 PM #24:	Grendel posted... Clench281 posted... also, your entire point is silly. conservatism is the belief system that values things without evaluating them. progressive belief system: Adopting change X is good because it has this befit for this reason conservative belief system: maintain X how it is because change bad That's also a pretty myopic viewpoint. Both conservatives and progressives are frequently guilty of ignoring inconvenient facts and ultimately both groups have what they believe are beneficial reasons for either changing things or leaving them as they are and to pretend otherwise is kind of embarrassingly disingenuous. progressive changes are proposed because of the perceivedvalue of those changes, not change for the sake of change. conservatives resist those changes due to an appeal to the value of tradition or norms. Evaluating ideas by their merits is sensible. Appealing to tradition is less so. --- Take me for what I am -- who I was meant to be. And if you give a damn, take me baby, or leave me. <cite>Clench281 posted [p:929007759] in I figured ... [t:78096591]...</cite> <quote>Grendel posted...</cite> <quote>Clench281 posted...</cite> <quote>also, your entire point is silly. conservatism is the belief system that values things without evaluating them. progressive belief system: Adopting change X is good because it has this befit for this reason conservative belief system: maintain X how it is because change bad</quote> That's also a pretty myopic viewpoint. Both conservatives and progressives are frequently guilty of ignoring inconvenient facts and ultimately both groups have what they believe are beneficial reasons for either changing things or leaving them as they are and to pretend otherwise is kind of embarrassingly disingenuous.</quote> progressive changes are proposed because of the perceivedvalue of those changes, not change for the sake of change. conservatives resist those changes due to an appeal to the value of tradition or norms. Evaluating ideas by their merits is sensible. Appealing to tradition is less so. --- Take me for what I am -- who I was meant to be. And if you give a damn, take me baby, or leave me.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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