[Strawbale] Anti Cement Folks / an unsustainable policy

[David Neeley]

One problem so many folks have is they have preconceived ideas about what a
"conservative" might be. Quite often, very wrong ideas, too.

*I* would be considered by most either conservative or, more accurately,
libertarian in my political and economic views.

However, I am also very interested in and actively seeking better methods of
resource conservation and alternative utility sources.

In my opinion, you do your cause a disservice to try to make such
assumptions about what is "conservative" and what is "liberal." Again in my
view, it is far more productive to stick with topics where we can find
agreement without attempting to apply the "easy" labels that are essentially
meaningless in this context.

Otherwise, you simply alienate one faction or another and lose the chance to
reason together.

In this discussion, for example, I have opposed some of HW's more rash
statements and attempted to demonstrate what I believe to be the limits of
his "sensible" opinions. He and I obviously disagree rather fundamentally in
some ways--and yet he has been labeled a "conservative" yet I have a forty
year history of working in and around conservative politics.

So why don't we attempt, at least, to keep things on the subject without the
labels and pejorative comments, shall we? Cheap shots like "typically
conservative (an oxymoron)" serve no purpose that seems particularly useful
if we are to arrive at any positive result.

David


On 5/9/07, Andrew Webb <design at thegreenwebb.com> wrote:
>
> This isn't specifically targetted at anyone, as I can see most
> everyone's point of view on this complicated subject.  But, it amazes me
> when people, typically conservatives (an oxymoron), use the rhetoric
> that their way is practical, logical, sensible, or even 'the tough but
> necessary choice'.
>