Conservatism to me means to conserve this world instead of destroying G-D’s creation and to uphold the principles of justice, meaning fair and speedy trials with due process and the assumption of innocence until proven guilty. It means to call out and confront injustice when we see it without moral selectivism; to work together as a unified country towards a common good. It means to go out and help your fellow man get back onto his feet when he is in need. That and religious values. Regardless, we all live in this universe and destroying it with pollutants, destroying ecosystems, smashing justice as if it means nothing at all, and being morally selectice against bad is intolerable. We already have caused unfathomable damage through deforestation, throwing mercury in the water that poisons the fish, and hunting entire species to extinction en masse. I am just one type of conservative though… there are many other types! I will list them later.
Now tell me, what do you think conservatism is? Let me know down below! Good faith answers only.
The state (nazi germany) said that people who helped Jewish folk were guilty. Do you stand by your innocent until proven guilty by the state for that situation?
There is a difference between actual innocence and what the state says is innocence. Those are not the same thing. If a man is ACTUALLY innocent and he did not harm another, innocent until proven guilty. If the state says a man is guilty when he is innocent or if the state says a man is guilty for not harming the innocent, that is called tyranny and the leader is a despot.
Edited because I said whay instead of what. Lol.
Getting esoteric, what would you say is tyrannical? Right wing (read: conservative) governments are currently using laws based on their flavour of god to set morality, so how do you colour someone as tyrannical?
Tyrannical is when the government restricts speech, expression, protest, religion, physically hurts others who are not actively threatening or being violent, and going after others for immutable characteristics or identity.
Right, so why align yourself with a political belief that does all those things, or is actively working towards doing those things?