Why are people Conservative?

Hello,

I'm curious,

Why do people identify as Conservative and why do they think this is the best ideology?

It's one of their aspects; oh and cry me a river because the losers at school ended up being cleaners.

Already your blaming people for being poor, I believe people should be rewarded for hard work & there should be a system that helps progression not a system that keeps some people at the bottom for the top to benefit.

And how exactly does a low tax system help people climb up the ranks?

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so basically a tory is a scummy capitalist and labour helps scummy benefit cheats. Wow politics is alive and well on TSR.

Have you ever even cleaned a toilet?

Hello,

I'm curious,

Why do people identify as Conservative and why do they think this is the best ideology?

It can be very comforting to think that those who are wealthy are wealthy simply because they've worked harder than others, but in reality it comes down to things which are - largely - out of their control. Your parents, your education, and your intelligence are perhaps the greatest influences on your life as a whole, and you don't get to choose them.

I'm conservative because I believe people who earn more money than others should be allowed to keep the difference, not dish it out to the people who can't be bothered to get a job or didn't try at school.

That isn't what conservative means.

Well look at the Tory starter homes as one example. You remove the burden of taxation making those homes more affordable and then substantially lower income tax (Osbourne has not gone nearly far enough in that regard) allowing people to save a deposit/the full amount quicker and ergo by lowering taxes in two areas you've expanded home ownership ('the property owning democracy ect..').

Ah but the all important question is.. are you a scummy capitalist or a scummy benefits cheat?



Pretty sure one of the candidates on The Apprentice in 2014 cleaned toilets and got to the interview stage. She was very well from it by all accounts.

Yeah you don't. No-one does.

No-one in my family has been murdered but that is obviously something that doesn't only affect an individual. I don't want to get personal but there are worse things that happen to people including myself that you have no idea about (and vice versa). I don't pity those with medical conditions.

Everyone goes through massive problems in their life. Everyone. I think you know that but what you don't want to admit is that your problems are no worse than others'.

Your attitude that "a lot more bad things happen to me than many others" in no way helps you at all, and if anything contributes to you being affected by your problems.

Honestly I am trying to help you because I've had to battle with this mentality so many times (I used to have it and I've found it to be a common human natural response). It is 3am in the morning and I am not spending minutes of my life for 'shits and giggles' believe me.

The best thing you can do from now on is to come around to thinking along the lines of:
-Bad things happen.
-I don't need to compare to others (some have it worse some of the time, some have it better some of the time).
-I am in control of my life.
-I can determine whether or not I get affected by bad things in my life.
-I am not 'damaged goods'.
-I have the capability to do any good thing I want.
-The world is a better place with me in it.

Please just give what I say a chance. But don't reject all of it because I know at least some of it is true.

I find this to be a very weak argument for or against anything.

Of course many things are out of your control, what has that got to do with aspiration to financial gain? It's not to do with working hard only but working effectively.

We don't live in a deterministic world. Just because things happen doesn't mean you should let yourself be affected by them.

You are assuming here that he particularly cared about the benefit flowing to the individual.The real strength of capitalism and being able to profit from work isn't that it divides wealth in a morally justifiable way. It doesn't really. However it does contribute to the overall advancement of society.There's nothing more social than trade, and when people get to benefit from it, everyone wins. While great innovators and inventors may have benefited from an education or upbringing others did not receive, the ability to profit from their enterprise has brought what they have created to the wider public.While I'm obvious simplifying the dynamics of a capitalist society, it is this arrangement that has driven forward living standards for decades. It is what has kept relatively free market societies in the driving seat globally, while their ideological alternatives have found themselves economically stagnant and comparatively impoverished.

I'm conservative because I believe people who earn more money than others should be allowed to keep the difference, not dish it out to the people who can't be bothered to get a job or didn't try at school.

I'm conservative because I believe in conservative/traditional values because these values are best for famillies, communities and society to stay healthy and functioning. Without this there will be decadence from which many problems will arise.

Immaturity, privilege and a lack of education explain this view.