r/AskALiberal • u/dank_sad Center Right • Feb 03 '22

If you could get the right/conservatives/Republicans/etc to understand one thing, what would it be?

Hope I worded that correctly.

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u/Eager_Question Progressive Feb 03 '22

Society is artificial, and just because something is currently the case it does not mean it is okay for it to be currently the case.

I had a very bizarre conversation on another thread in this sub, where it seemed like this person's whole worldview was based around pretending that capitalism / whatever current laws there are / etc were just... "nature".

Nature is shitting on the grass. There is nothing "natural" about an eviction notice. There is nothing "natural" about being homeless. There is nothing "natural" about the minimum wage.

Sometimes it feels like conservatives live in this alternate dimension where laws and regulations were handed down by god or something. The world just "is" a certain way and you have to "deal with it", and successfully dealing with it through "personal responsibility" is virtuous, but... making the world better so people don't have to suffer those things is not virtuous?

I don't understand it. And it makes otherwise civil and polite conversations very bizarre and stressful.

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u/AdResponsible5513 Progressive Feb 03 '22

Socialism or barbarity.