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Lamb Chowder posted:You'd think this rather obvious truth and the pattern of political progress would persuade a lot more people to relinquish strongly regressive policy opinions sooner and to come to grips with the futility of reintroducing them, but no; I've actually heard the argument that "All liberal policy positions are eventually conservative ones." I think if you look at the history of politics the lesson isn't that people eventually change their minds and progress is made, but that progress is made through enough reactionaries dying off while younger generations hold views that their grandparents generation would've thought were outrageous at their age. I don't think this happens just in politics. Scientists for example whose life's work is a theory that ends up being either wrong or surpassed by a better theory don't tend to just up and change their minds; they die off while other scientists find the arguments of other theories more compelling and thus never turn into adepts of whatever the wrong theory was, eventually causing it to go extinct. This perhaps more than anything is why the world would become a horrible loving place if we ever managed to stop ourselves from dying natural deaths.
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