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I don't think it's helpful to make assumptions about the reason for someone's personal preference or comfort and then to deny them the respect of empathy. If y

• throwaway22032 5y ago
  If conservatism is radical to you, that's cool by me. At the end of the day, we don't need to agree.
  • ska 5y ago
    > If conservatism is radical to you non-sequitur, I think.
    • throwaway22032 5y ago
      Indeed, I don't think his comment makes sense either.
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  • Cd00d 5y ago
    TBH that's a very baffling definition of conservatism to me. Makes me wonder what the root of your defined values are.
    • throwaway22032 5y ago
      First search result, Wikipedia: Conservatism Conservatism is an aesthetic, cultural, social, and political philosophy, which seeks to promote and to preserve traditional social institutions. Literally that; I place value in traditional social institutions. Like my University, my local pub, the office, lecture halls, and yeah, the handshake. Freedom of travel. That stuff. I think they're more important than coronavirus nonsense. A lot more. Certainly now, so now we have to fight to get them back to where they were. They're worth as much to me as one of my limbs would be, they're life itself.
      • nicoburns 5y ago
        To be fair, the reason freedom of travel has been limited is precisely because the virus has the power to take away people's lives and also the health of their vital organs (e.g heart, lungs). I think it's reasonable to want to fight for normality and tradition, but there has to be a balance. Here in the UK we're nearly there. Our government is considering removing all restrictions sometime in the next 2 months (it may end up being a bit more phased - lot's of people are in favour of continuing to mandate self-isolation when you actually currently have the virus). If you want that where you live then consider advocating for vaccination uptake, because that's what's allowing us to make these changes here without triggering a public health crisis.
        • throwaway22032 5y ago
          I live in the UK and my balance throughout has been "completely ignore all of the scaremongering". 1% risk of death. Wait, now sub 0.1%, thx vaccine. Meanwhile schools are still in dystopia mode, Universities are nothing like they were when I went, almost every job in my field is gone, shitloads of businesses have permaclosed, etc. We can't even reverse it now, loads of it is baked in. Remove all legal restrictions and half of the people are still wearing face masks and avoiding socialising 'cus Covid'. March-May 2020 kind of sort of made sense (I still think we could have just asked people rather than using legal force but whatever). Beyond that, sunk cost after sunk cost and just an increasingly bizarre game of one-upmanship "look, I can make my life worse than yours!". _This_ is radicalization - believing an ever deepening web of bollocks and as a result drastically changing one's way of interacting with the world. They don't even remember how they used to live and why. I stand by my statement - it is conservative to accept a slightly increased risk in order to maintain our traditions. It is radical to flip the world on a dime. (The UK Conservative Party is emphatically not conservative by any reasonable definition).
          • pessimizer 5y ago
            Fighting against the germ theory of disease is definitely conservatism.
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