November 18, 2020

Values corrupt social interactions, yet conservatives have nothing but values for political purposes.

Everyone has their own values which vary widely. Values don't change easily, because they are webbed into realities. So they should not be imposed. To not impose values means social interactions need to be based on objective realities unbiased by values.

Of course it's not possible to totally strip values from anything humans do; but the question is the impositions. It's possible to focus on objective realities without imposing values.

Conservatives apply an improper logic to the subject. They claim that values are so important that they must be imposed. Being important does not justify imposition. In fact, imposition destroys values rather than sustains them.

When groups form around values, such as religions or conservative interactions, there is a rounding off of each person's values to fit the common values of the group. Only a small amount of rounding off can be done. And then different groups end up with widely varying values.

All of those groups with widely varying values cannot interact with each other without conflicts occurring. What would be the solution to that problem? The only consequence other than tolerance of differences that humans have found is to fight wars over the differences.

Objective reality solves that problem. Since the universe is going to impose objective reality upon humans, like it or not, getting with it is the solution to human problems. People need to learn to live with objective reality and solve problems with objective reality as the only solution to conflicts between persons who have varied values.

Yet conservatives will not tolerate objective reality being developed through rationality. To Trump and sycophants, rationality is swamp which is exterminated from government.

To conservatives in general, the imposition of values requires that objective reality not be allowed to disrupt the process. Since no one can defy objective reality, objective reality needs to be buried in social interactions including government before values can be imposed.

Conservatives use values as a self-righteous justification. They pretend (nothing must be clarified in the promotion of corruption) that their promotion of values makes them holier than others. That implication lies at the underlying basis for the sanctimonious attack of conservatives upon opponents.

Conservatives pretend that they must prevail against others (primarily liberals), because conservatives are promoting values as the only justifiable thing to do.

The corollary is that liberals must be the destroyers of life, because they promote tolerance of differences. Never mind that Christ taught tolerance; unnoticeable contradictions aren't going to stop conservatives from saving us from differences in values.