Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "JRE Clips"
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Joe Steel
Advocating liberalism just for the sake of liberalism is short sighted and possibly dangerous. Liberalism implies the willingness to consider new ideas and balance against ideas in place. It does NOT imply that every new idea should be accepted because all conservative ideas are bad and harmful.
Conservatism holds, as the highest principle, the autonomy of the individual. That includes the freedom to choose to live, belief and work as the individual wishes, as long as those choices do not inhibit the choices and freedoms of others. That's at the root of conservative thought and it's non-negotiable, no matter how liberal or progressive one believes that they are.
Does that mean that conservatives will always be correct on specific issues? Of course not not more than a liberal would be. You take each issue and you examine the details and let the facts stand for themselves. From there, you come to a conclusion and you don't wait to see on which side the liberal or the conservative might fall on. That's not thought or self determination.
No conservative or liberal will tell me what conclusion I must draw on any issue, be it gun control, health care, taxes, climate change, racial issues or any other issue that happens to be under consideration and I refuse to be labelled left or right due to my stand on any specific issue. I value my life and my autonomy too much to allow myself to be boxed by anyone, liberal or conservative.
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Joe Steel
Conservatives do change. However that change is measured and change isn't done just for the sake of change itself. Maintain the systems of the past that have worked well until, as long as the issues are fully understood, ideas show that change would be a good thing. I know conservative minded people who are very religious on the one hand and highly innovative in their businesses or workplace. It's not so much that they refuse to change but they believe that change should be slow and only implemented when positive results seem inevitable.
Also, there is no such thing as complete autonomy. We still live within the structures of our family, our workplace, our church or belief system, our circle of friends and the community in general. "No man is an island" is a truism not just a cute saying. The autonomy comes in when we're allowed to choose if we stay within our family, stay at a specific workplace, change our belief system, find new friends or even change the community we live in. It's the freedom to be who we wish to be within the society that we, as a social creature, must live to survive. It is the freedom to change or not change as we see fit as an autonomous human being.
When Thomas Paine said "If I see something that needs change,why should I wait until you see it." I see a support for autonomy. That I, as an individual, have the right to change something, without the approval of anyone else, so long as my actions don't infringe on the rights of others.
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