It may be
true that anyone who adheres to a liberal value must eventually become
dependent upon it, but liberals still hold the moral advantage over
conservatives by avenue of this same self-sacrifice, for in order to be a
conservative one must be dependent already upon the established order PRIOR TO
the fact, whereas the only reason that liberals are held responsible for their
conditions, by conservatives, is that liberals actually DID something by which
the world might become more habitable, and only an ignorant fool seems to think
that any such progress could be made on behalf of the World by an agent
corrupted by true self-interest. At any rate, if both schools could be reduced
to self-interest there remains no rational justification for why either party
SHOULD be rewarded for its self-interest, as the conservative position attests,
and yet the latter party continues to behave as
though its flimsy meritocracy has been given
by God, certainly because, as I have indicated, the consciousness of the
conservative is not the product of reasoning or compassion but rather of an
existing status quo, one that will appear incontrovertible by those too weak to
controvert it and too mean to value those who do.
Dm.A.A.
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