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Re: Depends on what country you're talking about Isaac Send a noteboard - 26/02/2011 04:14:16 PM
But that is just looking at the economic side of it. There is also a distinction between being socially liberal and conservative. Social liberals believe in more personal freedom, and things like abortion rights, gay marriage, etc. Social conservatives believe in more (shockingly! ) conservative things, and oppose abortion rights, gay marriage, etc.


Those as social issues is incomplete though, from the personal freedom aspect you generally want to include gun rights, drugs, suicide, and such whereas most conservatives will object to abortion qualifying as a personal liberty issue since they view it not as an individual liberty but as granting one person right to kill another. Social cons will generally support more 'traditional' personal freedoms, but also tend to emphasize a lot of personal freedoms from their perspective in the form of things like gun rights, school vouchers, right to work, and opposition to inheritance 'death' tax. Where these are involved even 'traditional' isn't necessarily the right concept, but people do tend to forget that 'social conservative' have non-economic issues beyond abortion and gays.
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