re: Please help me understand: Liberalism

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i could if we were talking in person but i'm not going to waste 2 hours of my life trying to do it on here because i'll end up having to argue with all the mouth breathers trying to push their warped and largely false perceptions of what liberalism is.

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This.

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Conservatives want freedom. Liberals want equality. Both seem like good principles but freedom has a clear definition while libs keep redefining what it means to be equal.

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The definition of Freedom changes all the time for certain people too. Freedom as long as its something I agree with. If not, then that "freedom" doesn't really exist.

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Nope. Freedom means the right to live your life as you see fit. That doesn't include killing unborn children (because they deserve the freedom to live) or adding new government contracts that don't really change anything about what you are free to do and really change nothing about freedom (gay marriage).

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You just exactly made my point

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Actually, I just showed why your point was flawed.

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Lol no you just defined freedom as you see it. Absolute freedom means you don't get to dictate whether 2 people can marry one another or not.

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Lol no you just defined freedom as you see it. Absolute freedom means you don't get to dictate whether 2 people can marry one another or not.

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Nothing has changed in this regard. No one would have stopped you from having a gay ceremony to do what you believe is a marriage before, and no one will stop you now. That freedom existed and nothing has changed just because we now have the newly defined "equality" you are referencing. In fact, equality didn't even really change. People all had the same equal rights before the government expanded to include gay "marriage" and they all have the same equal rights now.

You don't seem to understand the difference between freedom and "equality."

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Education

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Do you honestly believe our shameful education system is due to a lack of funding?

You can start here: LINK

Oh boy, this looks fun. Let me give it a try.

Disclaimer: I likely won't respond to all of your criticisms/disputes of this post. Simply defending any liberal idea on this site is a sure fire recipe to raise hell, so I anticipate plenty of backlash. And assuming the backlash y'all unleash is of the usual variety, much of it simply won't be worth responding to.

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a belief system that views the removal of a living human child from a womb

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There are plenty of people who believe that life does not begin at conception. If you truly want to understand liberalism, you need to at least acknowledge that not everyone operates under the same set of assumptions that you do.

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if this young lady had murdered a a baby instead of shooting an animal it would be seen as an act of courage instead of getting her death threats and a canceled contract

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This is clear proof that you don't actually have any desire to understand liberalism at all. You are clearly operating under your own perceptions/assumptions rather than trying to understand someone else's. But what the hell, I'll keep going; pointing out flaws in logic are fun.

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Most liberals are socialists and I don't make friends with any of them

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Haha, so you have no idea then? This is awesome; an individual who is fully and willingly able to admit that he has no desire to get to know anyone who differs from himself also claims that he is capable of making a single overlapping judgment on the same massive group of people who he just admitted having no desire to know. Truly a wonderful example of when a bias too strong is combined with a vanity too intense. Excellent!

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All about hand outs and affirmative action. F that

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There are some liberals that this is true of; they represent a minority. It is asinine to believe that this is the only bastion of liberalism for the majority on the left.

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It's a mental disorder.

If you are dumb, you could be duped into being a Liberal, because you are stupid.

If you are of average or higher intelligence, but, yet, are a Liberal, you have some kind of mental or personality disorder.

Many millions of Americans are stupid, or, are afflicted with mental or personality disorders. That's why there are so many of these idiot Liberals.

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Sarcasm?

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Stealing from your fellow citizens via taxation under the guise that your doing it for a good cause.

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This is by no means contained to liberals.

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It's a childish argument, but, then again, Liberalism is for those folks who are mentally very childish and/or stupid.

There are millions of Americans who are either stupid, childish, or afflicted with mental disorders, so, we have millions of Liberals.

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I guess that previous post wasn't sarcasm, cause your doubling down on stupid here, haha. There are so many ways to argue against this, but I'll try to keep it short.

What absolutely blows me away here (and in your prior post) is how someone can be so unabashedly self assured. I mean, you are freely admitting that it is your belief that anyone who cannot perceive the world the way you do must have something wrong with them. Are you really so sure of yourself that the only possible conclusion you can reach about those who think differently than you do is that they must have some sort of mental impairment? Do you really not see how dangerous it is to live life this way?

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Liberals are obsessed with equality which it totally unnatural. People are not equal. Nature is not equal.

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I agree with this. As another poster said earlier, the liberal mindset is almost always formed in good intentions. But in these good intentions, they often try to fix problems that don't exist.

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Segregation

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What????