{"id":6074,"date":"2016-11-03T06:08:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T06:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/a-difference-between-liberals-and-conservatives\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T06:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T06:08:29","slug":"a-difference-between-liberals-and-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/a-difference-between-liberals-and-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"A Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c8abc631970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blame victim\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c8abc631970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c8abc631970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Blame victim\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Liberals are horrified at any and all &#39;blaming of the victim.&#39; &#0160;Conservatives know better: there are situations in which it is just and right to assign a certain amount of the blame for a crime to the victim. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Suppose I withdraw money from an outdoor ATM in a bad part of town on a Saturday night. &#0160;I walk away from the machine, head down, counting my loot while yapping on a cell phone. &#0160;I end up getting mugged. &#0160;Am I not partially to blame for the attack?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">If you say No, then you lack common sense and you have no understanding of human nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">You don&#39;t realize that you have a moral obligation not to suborn bad behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">There is no common sense and no wisdom on the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">So wise up and stop being a librul. &#0160;The life you improve will be your own.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals are horrified at any and all &#39;blaming of the victim.&#39; &#0160;Conservatives know better: there are situations in which it is just and right to assign a certain amount of the blame for a crime to the victim. &#0160; Suppose I withdraw money from an outdoor ATM in a bad part of town on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/a-difference-between-liberals-and-conservatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}