Picking Up in the Middle of the Argument...

[Ibby]

This is off something I was arguing about in the Nationstates Forum a few minutes ago (the paleoconservatives thread), but its not letting me post, so I figured I'd post it here and see what you think....

The crux of the matter comes to simply this, to me;
Liberals think you should be able to do whatever you want.
Conservatives think you should be able to do whatever THEY want.

As far as I'm concerned, I would be perfectly happy with the government getting the fuck outta welfare and everything else, as long as people would volunteer to pick up the slack out of the goodness of their hearts.
People suck, so they wont.

In my opinion, a conservative government, one that tells the populace what they can and can't do for themselves, is no better than a dictatorship. A government that legislates against gay marriage, or critisizing the government, or not being religion {X}, or having brown hair, is unacceptable and a breach simple human decency.
Therefore, any form of conservatism, whether it be neo, paleo, theo, or neopaleotheomccarthyist, is simply the antithesis of freedom.