A standard is something you apply to your own side first, liarI love how whenever the conservatives on this site can't really refute what you said they post a profanity-laced insult as if that will hide their abject failure to address the subject.How many lies has the nominal leader of the GOP been caught telling in the last year and a half?Conservatism or Liberty?
Moving to more general considerations, conservatism rests on a claim of privileged access to truth, whether through revelation or some sort of "practical reason" to derive rules of personal and interpersonal conduct—which really seems to boil down to a reverse engineering to justify personal preferences.
Admittedly, this is dissatisfying for those who claim to have a monopoly on truth and want to impose it through central planning. But humility calls for a prudent rejection of social engineering, as we simply lack the knowledge to impose better outcomes on others. Conservatism may very well be right in its assertions, but it very well might be wrong. There may very well be an eternal law—but our knowledge thereof is another question entirely. Confident claims of knowledge in the public square or the classroom are one thing, but using them as a grounding for coercive power is another entirely.
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Can't argue with his POV.
I see it in many conservatives.
However, I am interested in what others think.
Conservatives don't even really have a tenuous grasp of the truth, much less a monopoly.
Yes, we hear it all the time.
Only problem is that you define what is a lie and what isn't.
Go fuck yourself.
It would be funny if it wasn't just sad.