Re: Making money from Java

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:29:32 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

>>I will say
>>that, generally speaking, a 'conservative' is someone who wants to keep
>>traditional things like values, and a 'liberal' is one who wants to change
>>them.
>
>How interesting... I recall being taught that the conservative view is
>'that which is not permitted is forbidden' and the liberal was 'that which
>is not forbidden is permitted'.

Those are stereotypical criticisms, which don't match up very well
with reality.


One big trouble with the term "conservative", is that we have a wide
variety of traditional values, that vary by class, age, religion,
culture...

At various times it was conservative to support a king, slavery, Jim
Crow, the Church of England..., but as we have been accustomed to past
liberal changes, they become conservative. Most of us are
conservative enough that the standards of beauty and art that we
appreciate are the ones we acquired in our formative years.

The traditional definition above of "liberal" of wanting to change
values doesn't mean "change my values", it means "change your values",
which is exactly the same thing conservatives believe in.

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