>>1793036It really boils down to authoritarian tendencies.
They see the side effects of giving people the idea that freedom comes with no responsibilities or consequences, and then when those same people get addicted or get STDs or end up with a single family household, thy demand the government pay up.
So what is their solution? Is it to destroy the state and bring it back to societal self-maintenance?
No, they want the state to outlaw shit.
They get the core argument right, that people are being "rewarded" for making bad decisions, but their solutions are always to impede on individual freedoms rather than preach morality and themselves help those in need as a society.
The founding fathers were all about how being virtuous is the core of a free republic. Some examples:
>George Washington>“Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,”>“Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”
>John Adams>“Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private Virtue, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.”
>Benjamin Franklin>“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”
>James Madison>“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”
>Thomas Jefferson>“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”But conservatives rarely practice what they preach.
They're quick to espouse their beliefs but slow to live by them, clinging to doctrine as a shield of superiority.