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Because government making decision based on morality is slippery slope as morality is very subjective and varies with people, race and religion. Also is not Rep

Because government making decision based on morality is slippery slope as morality is very subjective and varies with people, race and religion. Also is not Republican the party which advocates small government?

briandear 8y ago
Conservatism is about small government and while Republicans and conservatives overlap, they aren’t the same thing. It’s kind of how Socialists tend to vote Democrat, but that doesn’t mean that Democrats act consistently with socialism. But I agree, government forcing a company to do something isn’t particularly in line with Republican ideas and it’s hypocritical in the context of limited government.
merpnderp 8y ago
We force corporations to do things all the time. Like the US is at a serious disadvantage in countries which use bribery to make corporate decisions, allow slave labor, or murder to coerce uncooperative locals. Conservatives are fine with this level of coercion, aka the rule of law.
matt4077 8y ago
It's worth mentioning that "slippery slope" was originally meant as a fallacy, i. e. the invalid argument that something good is nonetheless bad when extrapolating to some extreme version of it. It's easiest to see how useless the "slippery slope" concept is when noticing that it can be applied to absolute everything: "if I start by feeding my own kids, I will soon have every needy kid at my door, asking for food" "If we start to expect politicians not to be murders, a parking ticket will soon be disqualifying" etc. etc. Specifically here: government makes decisions based on morality all the time. I'd argue every single decision by the executive, legislative, and judicial branch is based on morality. It's obvious for the criminal justice system. For everything else, like deciding between different uses of tax money (aircraft carrier or social housing), making decisions requires some sort of function to optimize, and that function can ultimately only rest on morality.
int_19h 8y ago
Notions like "free speech is good" are themselves based on morality, and highly subjective. Yet we have them written not just into laws, but into our very Constitution.

briandear 8y ago

Conservatism is about small government and while Republicans and conservatives overlap, they aren’t the same thing. It’s kind of how Socialists tend to vote Democrat, but that doesn’t mean that Democrats act consistently with socialism. But I agree, government forcing a company to do something isn’t particularly in line with Republican ideas and it’s hypocritical in the context of limited government.

merpnderp 8y ago

We force corporations to do things all the time. Like the US is at a serious disadvantage in countries which use bribery to make corporate decisions, allow slave labor, or murder to coerce uncooperative locals. Conservatives are fine with this level of coercion, aka the rule of law.

matt4077 8y ago

It's worth mentioning that "slippery slope" was originally meant as a fallacy, i. e. the invalid argument that something good is nonetheless bad when extrapolating to some extreme version of it. It's easiest to see how useless the "slippery slope" concept is when noticing that it can be applied to absolute everything: "if I start by feeding my own kids, I will soon have every needy kid at my door, asking for food" "If we start to expect politicians not to be murders, a parking ticket will soon be disqualifying" etc. etc. Specifically here: government makes decisions based on morality all the time. I'd argue every single decision by the executive, legislative, and judicial branch is based on morality. It's obvious for the criminal justice system. For everything else, like deciding between different uses of tax money (aircraft carrier or social housing), making decisions requires some sort of function to optimize, and that function can ultimately only rest on morality.

int_19h 8y ago

Notions like "free speech is good" are themselves based on morality, and highly subjective. Yet we have them written not just into laws, but into our very Constitution.