Because Conservatism - Read Liberty - Comes with certain responsibilities.
Most Americans it seems, including many on this board, would rather have freedom - Which has consequences.
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Hmm............ appears another urinary contest is about to explode over labels;
such as 'conservatism' which many toss around like a tennis ball @ Wimbledon.
So another reflection which is hardly my opinion.
The Natural Law was born alongside Mankind and derived from human nature
by applying logic and reason. It appears in the ideas and thoughts of the great
minds of the Fertile Crescent among them Hammurabi and Sargon.
Later the wise Greeks further advanced Man's understanding, particularly Plato
in his monumental work, "The Republic".
From these ideas, Principled Conservatism evolved, a body of enduring
precepts and rules governing conduct necessary for the sustainability of
culture/society involving attitudes, behaviors and sentiments about human
nature and having nothing, NOTHING, to do w/either politics or religion.
These precepts were advanced by Aristotle, then by the Medieval Scholastics,
among them Aquinas and Ockham and later by the English Whigs, among them
Burke, Hume and Locke.
Around 1750, the French Radicals , experts at religious heresy, birthed a secular
heresy in the form of the Enlightenment w/their mantra:
* Liberte' / liberty, freedom trumps all virtue,
* Egalite'/ we are all equal,
* Fraternite' /we are all bothers;
capturing in three words the bull shit that has spawned every ism of the modern
era most prominently progressivism, the father of Marxism.
Many insist that Libertarianism is the same as Conservatism. Wrong, as they have
little to do w/each other than the notion of property rights.
Suggestion; if one wishes to enlighten in order to persuade one must first understand!!!