Re: Making money from Java

"Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.


The point of using different terms to distinguish different things is
obliterated by your definition above. :-) I believe a more useful
definition is, rather than use "my values" or "your values", use "prevailing
societal values". In general, a "liberal" is one who wants to change
prevailing societal values, and a "conservative" is one who wants to
maintain (conserve) them. :-)
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