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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip
Conservatives, strangely enough, don't care about conservation. They don't lie to themselves if they destroy, say, an ancient Indian mound. It was in the way and therefore impeding progress and profit. It may be heartless and stupidly lacking in cultural and historical perspective but they did it and they knew they did and they wanted to do it so they did it.
Liberals, however, will destroy the same mound claiming they were saving it and saving the environment. So they have to lie to themselves more than conservatives who have a "F-uck the environment" mentality. Liberals are as heartless but they hate to think of themselves that way so they have to rationalize. Conservatives don't care how heartless they are being. To them it's just, "Awwww, cry me a river so I can pollute it for you!" As long as it pisses liberals off then they'll do it and f-uck all. Liberals are the same about conservatives but make up narratives that deny it otherwise they wouldn't be able to distinguish themselves from the conservatives they hate so much.
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I see your point. But earlier you talked about the Taliban destroying statues of Buddha. The Taliban is a Conservative group, and they did what they did because they thought they were "saving" the morality of humanity. So you see, both Conservative and Liberal extremist groups want the same thing: to get people to submit to their moral ideals. It's just that typically ultra-Conservatives want to stop things from changing because they consider change morally unfounded, while ultra-Liberals want to bring about change because they consider the modern state of affairs to be morally unfounded.