M. Bréqs wrote:...Yes this definition is biased. However, my point is that your oringinal definition of liberal vs conservative was also biased just in the other direction.A liberal would say that a proper role for government is to regulate and oversee people's lives. Liberals say it's proper for hardworking people to subsidize lazy people (such as through unaccountable welfare systems), to remove people's rights to make their own financial decisions (such as forcing healthy non-smoking non-drinking athletic people to pay for the medical results of other's self destructive vices), and by enforcing racist and sexist policies (like hiring quotas or lowering university entrance requirements for people based on the colour of their skin).
A conservative would say that a proper role for government is to subtly protect of the system that has brought us all freedom and prosperity. Conservatives say it's proper for government to ensure that we have a healthy economy and the capability in the long term future of providing essential services (by avoiding crippling taxation and restraining government spending), that people have the freedom to worship, but that people also have a social responsiblity to contribute to the economic and social wellbeing of society.
Very true on the bias point. That was why I questioned where he got his quote above.
