Re: What I do not understand about the conservative ideology
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government's purpose should be to improve the populace's general quality of life, not tell them how they should live their lives.
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Your position has two major problems.
1. Who defines what it means to "improve the general populace's quality of life". That purpose sounds noble and laudable but when you are confronted with what that actually means, in terms of everyday governance, there is no simple answer, and plenty of room for disagreement. I have no doubts that I would disagree with you about many programs and regulations that you currently believe are there to meet that goal.
2. How exactly do you give govt the power to "improve the quality of life" but not give them the power to tell us "how we should live our lives". There is a thin line there between paternalistic protection and authoritarian coercion, and it makes for a bad governing principle.
Your view of govt depends entirely on the belief that only uncorruptable men of goodwill shall ever hold positions of power in the govt. This is naive at best.
natedogg
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