That quote is garbage. I was never a liberal because I don't believe stealing someone's labor is good. Conservatism is the ethically superior ideology. Don't tell me I didn't have a heart when I was 16 because I already understood that.
And I doubt the definition of liberal in the 1800s is the same as it is today.
Good for you, but outliers don't invalidate the rule. It is a fact that young people generally don't have a good defense mechanism against utopian thinking. Even though it's fundamentally incorrect, it still capitalises on powerful human desires, and teens/young adults for the most part have no clue what drives them yet.
I propose that we stop propagating it as a rule. I don't see anything at all utopian about socialism or communism. I never have. I think the meme that "it would work in a utopian society" is bullshit that pushes it as a good idea when it is literally an evil, unethical idea.
That quote is garbage. I was never a liberal because I don't believe stealing someone's labor is good. Conservatism is the ethically superior ideology. Don't tell me I didn't have a heart when I was 16 because I already understood that.
And I doubt the definition of liberal in the 1800s is the same as it is today.
Good for you, but outliers don't invalidate the rule. It is a fact that young people generally don't have a good defense mechanism against utopian thinking. Even though it's fundamentally incorrect, it still capitalises on powerful human desires, and teens/young adults for the most part have no clue what drives them yet.
I propose that we stop propagating it as a rule. I don't see anything at all utopian about socialism or communism. I never have. I think the meme that "it would work in a utopian society" is bullshit that pushes it as a good idea when it is literally an evil, unethical idea.
Cool perspective. I'm running around doing errands but I'll check back with it later and try to consider it in terms of our convo.