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# it encourages self-restraint that is invaluable in combating addiction, temptation, and obesity | # it encourages self-restraint that is invaluable in combating addiction, temptation, and obesity | ||
# it encourages self-sufficiency and self-help rather than dependency | # it encourages self-sufficiency and self-help rather than dependency | ||
| − | # it | + | # it facilitates genuine ''personal'' charity, with all its spiritual benefits |
# it is shared across all religions and cultures | # it is shared across all religions and cultures | ||
# it facilitates extraordinary insights and epiphanies | # it facilitates extraordinary insights and epiphanies | ||
| − | # it helps tremendously in raising and educating the next generation, including one's children | + | # it helps tremendously in raising and educating the next generation, including one's own children |
| − | # it appreciates law and order, and the value in adhering to it | + | # it appreciates law and order, and the ''personal'' value in adhering to it |
Feel free to improve this list. | Feel free to improve this list. | ||
Revision as of 03:40, January 8, 2008
There are significant personal benefits to conservatism:
- it recognizes that ideas, and particularly political ideas, do have serious personal consequences[1]
- it recognizes that politics and culture are adversarial and deceitful, and helps one filter the falsehoods
- it allows one to speak and think freely without distortion by political correctness
- it enables one to rise above his personal likes and dislikes[2]
- it recognizes the importance of self-defense, mentally and physically
- it encourages a personal frugality that doesn't waste other people's money ... or one's own
- it encourages self-restraint that is invaluable in combating addiction, temptation, and obesity
- it encourages self-sufficiency and self-help rather than dependency
- it facilitates genuine personal charity, with all its spiritual benefits
- it is shared across all religions and cultures
- it facilitates extraordinary insights and epiphanies
- it helps tremendously in raising and educating the next generation, including one's own children
- it appreciates law and order, and the personal value in adhering to it
Feel free to improve this list.