From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 04:18:49 BST
[MSH had stated]
Again, I was responding within the context of this thread, wherein I
still say that, generally speaking, a conservative's resistance to
change is less MOQ-healthy than a progressive's willingness to try
things.
[Platt responded]
Let me know when "progressives" are willing to try:
Cutting taxes
Reducing the welfare system
Cutting off affirmative action
Removing opposition to judicial nominations
Experimenting with school vouchers
Fixing the social security system
Allowing voters to decide same-sex marriages
Eradicating tyrannies such as the Taliban and Saddam
Supporting the Iraq's effort to establish a democracy
Fighting the forces of radical Islam
[Arlo jumps in]
Hey Platt, the 1890s called, they want their "progressive" ideas back. ;-) I've
asked them why turning back the clock is being touted as trying something
"new", and they had no answer... you?
Some particular questions: Didn't conservatives block liberal judicial
nominations? Why was that okay? I'd love if you can point to something you'd
written that lambasted conservatives for delaying "liberal" judicial
appointees.
You keep claiming the moral high-ground for conservatives with the eradication
of Saddam and the Taliban, and yet you are oddly silent on Bush's close family
and business ties with the House of Saud. Do you only favor "eradicating"
dictators that are not in business and in bed with our president?
What is your rationale for opposing same-sex marriages? On what basis do you
find them immoral? More specifically, on what basis do you morally argue that a
same-sex life partner should not have the same civil inheritance rights as a
heterosexual life partner? Would you support a majority vote on making
red-heads unable to marry? Why? Why not? If the majority can determine what
sexes are allowed to marry, why not what haircolors? What's the moral
difference?
You argue school vouchers, but Mati has proposed two critical criteria that
proponents of vouchers run from. Why? What is your moral opposition to these
two requirements of vouchers?
Arlo
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