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TheQuestioner
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Question everything to learn the credibility/uncredibility and legitimacy/illegitimacy of all things.
Question everything to learn the credibility/uncredibility and legitimacy/illegitimacy of all things.
'''But''' accept authority that is legitimate and justified.
'''But''' accept authority that is legitimate and justified. I.e. don't listen to conspiracy theorists.
I am a libertarian conservative. I believe the greatest tradition of the American Constitution is its tradition of individual liberty. The state should have no ability to regulate people's beliefs and associations. I support conservative theorist [[Edmund Burke]]'s emphasis on traditionalism as a necessity for a society and his denouncing of the anti-traditionalism of the left-wing radicals of the [[French Revolution]]. What Burke meant was that change in all societies requires a connection to tradition or in mroe legal terms "precedent", in order for it to rationally advance. The left-wing radicals of the French Revolution that Burke opposed, had completely denounced traditionalism and created a whole new system based on untested ideas that resulted in a descent into mass violence and repression. Burke was right that society needs to be based on tradition that itself is based on experience and '''not''' on radical ideals.
Facts of life that are proven that some people irrationally do not accept:
Facts of life that are proven that some people irrationally do not accept: