What are the benefits of being right-wing?

What kind of "equality"?

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troubadour.

Left- and right-wing are pretty meaningless labels. It's better to just take an issue-by-issue approach.

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oldercon1953

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Original post by Multitalented me

I'm more left-wing but my dad is more right-wing as he said it's more efficient and fairer for society. I don't totally understand what are the positives of a right-wing orientated system as I'm a strong supporter of equality and feel being on the left is the way to go personally.

The left would gladly trade our civil rights for their idea of equality.
The right thinks equality doesn't include school children being free to choose whichever bathroom they want to use depending on which gender they identify with.
They see that equality without civil rights is worthless.

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Asolare

OP the answers you're gonna get to this thread are going to be so insanely bias and with **** justification, as shown above^, you know that right?

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Jammy Duel

The right accepts that people are inherently unequal and supports private ownership. The left do not accept that people are inherently unequal and strive for collectivism to stamp out inequality.

The benefits of the right wing system come from that accepting of inequality, the system provides and incentive for people to work harder and innovative. A left wing system swings more towards putting a gun to the heads of the productive and saying "work as hard as you can or else we shoot", while the right wing systems are more on the side of working as much or as little as you want; you can worker harder than you need to if you want, you can do the bare minimum to survive if you want, but don't come begging to us if you don't want to work.

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sleepysnooze

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1) individual liberty and individual responsibility - you aren't a mere servant of society but are more independent from others
2) equality under the law actually being meaningful in that some aren't given economic privileges by the state
3) economic efficiency; international and domestic competition and supply/demand principles generate more wealth
4) less coercion from the state (non-aggression principle) meaning consent and peace trump imposition and violence

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Reality Check

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The benefit of being right-wing is learning quickly that money doesn't grow on trees and someone has to pay for the splurging of money left,right and centre.

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Midlander

Original post by Jammy Duel

The right accepts that people are inherently unequal and supports private ownership. The left do not accept that people are inherently unequal and strive for collectivism to stamp out inequality.

The benefits of the right wing system come from that accepting of inequality, the system provides and incentive for people to work harder and innovative. A left wing system swings more towards putting a gun to the heads of the productive and saying "work as hard as you can or else we shoot", while the right wing systems are more on the side of working as much or as little as you want; you can worker harder than you need to if you want, you can do the bare minimum to survive if you want, but don't come begging to us if you don't want to work.

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Yes the Queen really worked hard to be gifted her millions on a silver plate. If only we had all worked hard enough to have been born in Buckingham Palace.

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GenialGermanGent

Blissful ignorance. The (perceived) right to look down on and treat others badly to compensate for own character deficiencies or lack of success. Getting to simplify complex issues when you can't comprehend and deconstruct them.

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low tax

I define myself as "right-wing", more specifically, liberal conservative or classical liberal.

Most people who define themselves as "right-wing" I wouldn't want to be associated with because they're ethnic nationalists or closeted racists.

As far as I am concerned, being "right-wing" means being pro-market (not pro-business), being in favour of business competition, innovation and entrepreneurship (the highest social values IMO), wanting each individual to create her own destiny regardless of where she comes from (family, nation, etc), letting individuals take as much risk as they deem appropriate for their lifestyles (this includes both business decisions and personal ones - smoking for instance) without interference by the state (and without subsidies - e.g. health or education). I want people to trade freely with each other across borders and nations (both ideas and tangible goods) and be free to move wherever they can find work and support themselves. I want each person to lead her own lifestyle without being limited by governmental institutions.

It's a compelling and coherent ideology.

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Midlander

Original post by TastelessGum

I define myself as "right-wing", more specifically, liberal conservative or classical liberal.

Most people who define themselves as "right-wing" I wouldn't want to be associated with because they're ethnic nationalists or closeted racists.

As far as I am concerned, being "right-wing" means being pro-market (not pro-business), being in favour of business competition, innovation and entrepreneurship (the highest social values IMO), wanting each individual to create her own destiny regardless of where she comes from (family, nation, etc), letting individuals take as much risk as they deem appropriate for their lifestyles (this includes both business decisions and personal ones - smoking for instance) without interference by the state (and without subsidies - e.g. health or education). I want people to trade freely with each other across borders and nations (both ideas and tangible goods) and be free to move wherever they can find work and support themselves. I want each person to lead her own lifestyle without being limited by governmental institutions.

It's a compelling and coherent ideology.

Libertarianism is extremely compelling if you are already well off.

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Trapz99

I'm centre right because I believe that government should play a smaller part. A big government always leads to unnecessary regulation and interference in our lives. We should have less government spending and use our budget carefully. I feel that lower taxes work better than high welfare spending and saves us money. I think it's better to focus on improving social mobility through education rather than giving people benefits, which keeps the cycle of poverty going. A free market, low tax, low regulation economy will lead to a more prosperous society. In terms of social issues, I think it's important to protect traditional family values and preserve our Judeo-Christian culture. We should control immigration so it can benefit us while keeping us safe.

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Jammy Duel

Original post by Midlander

Yes the Queen really worked hard to be gifted her millions on a silver plate. If only we had all worked hard enough to have been born in Buckingham Palace.

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She's living in the socialist utopia you lot seem to want, actually, not quite, her tax rate is only 85%, not 100%.

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Midlander

Original post by Jammy Duel

She's living in the socialist utopia you lot seem to want, actually, not quite, her tax rate is only 85%, not 100%.

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What form of socialism contains a monarchy and unelected House of Lords?

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Jammy Duel

Original post by Midlander

What form of socialism contains a monarchy and unelected House of Lords?

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What form of capitalism has an 85% tax rate? Oh, and frankly most of them, just with different names given democracy only exists in the form of you can vote for the person the party tells you or you can not vote at all.

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