{"id":7132,"date":"2015-05-26T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/26\/is-man-basically-good\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:12:58","slug":"is-man-basically-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/26\/is-man-basically-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Man Basically Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservatives answer in the negative, liberals in the affirmative.  This may be the most important difference between the warring parties.  Dennis Prager explains the difference very clearly here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals will object to the 'radioactive' Man<\/em> in the above title borrowed from Prager.  They think it excludes women.  It does not.  It only excludes women if you are a liberal.<\/span><\/p>\n

This points up another key difference between liberals and conservatives.  For a liberal, nothing is immune to politicization, and everything, including language, can be pressed into service as a weapon of culture war.  No word or phrase is safe from being distorted for an ideological purpose.  A particularly egregious recent example is the absurd suggestion that 'thug' is code for 'nigger,' so that if one rightly describes the behavior of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, on the night he died as 'thuggish' one is hurling a racial epithet.  Conservatives, by contrast, aim to preserve and protect the language as a neutral means for the exchange of ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conservatives answer in the negative, liberals in the affirmative.  This may be the most important difference between the warring parties.  Dennis Prager explains the difference very clearly here. Liberals will object to the 'radioactive' Man in the above title borrowed from Prager.  They think it excludes women.  It does not.  It only excludes women if … Continue reading “Is Man Basically Good?”<\/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":[64,50,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-good-and-evil","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132","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=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}