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Talk:Essay:5 Questions to Ask an Anti-Conservative (view source)
Revision as of 20:20, September 18, 2008
, 20:20, September 18, 2008→Five answers from an "Anti-Conservative"
: You would benefit from reading more here. Try starting with [[faith]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 14:10, 28 May 2008 (EDT)
: You would benefit from reading more here. Try starting with [[faith]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 14:10, 28 May 2008 (EDT)
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Which group is more likely to lie to you: one that believes in the Ten Commandments and tries to obey them, or one that rejects the Ten Commandments?
: - Rejection of the 10 commandments doesn't mean that somebody has no morals... I can believe that lying, stealing, and killing are wrong without believing that using god's name in vain will send me to hell if I don't repent.
Would you ever suggest a classroom prayer for a classmate having a sick parent, who you know would greatly appreciate it?
: - No - I'd tell them I hope their parents get better.
If you support gun control, do you also advocate "alcohol control" for adults to reduce the greater harm caused by alcohol?
: - Yes. I think that the penalties for drunk driving, for example, should be significantly more severe - I've never really understood why people that are lucky enough to not have a person get in their way when they'd have trouble avoiding it get off so much easier than people who aren't so lucky. If you're caught driving drunk, there should be a major penalty for the danger that you put others around you in, even if nobody got hurt. In terms of the harm that you present to yourself by drinking, no, I don't think there should be more controls for that.
Is it possible that teaching conservative values to teenagers is beneficial for them, and you?
: - Generally, no. Most of the things that you'd probably try to throw back at me here are things that I'd consider common sense that you're calling conservative values.
Is it possible that conservative values helps reinforce and strengthen one's faith?
: - Very possibly. However, I think that faith is a very dangerous concept that can slow progress and encourage stupidity. When you hear about people staying behind in a hurricane because they have faith that god will pull them through, or they were meant to die, as sad as it is that they're doing that to themselves, and as much as I'd try to convince them not to if I were there, I think that's just natural selection in action. When you try to explain something as god's will, and something intangible that just can't be understood, I think that's just a lazy way out to avoid understanding how things work.
[[User:Mk|Mk]] 16:20, 18 September 2008 (EDT)
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