I think the that fundamental difference between Conservatives and Liberals comes down to this one question: Are there absolutes. I know after this question how a conversation is going to go and very rarely does it deviate from what I have come to expect. The reason for this is that the question forms the basis for all of our knowledge and experience. It is the lens through which we examine the world and judge it.

So the basic question is historically theological and is essentially Who started it? But we can as look at it as is there a Universal Right and Wrong? ABSOLUTES run counter to the postmodern drivel being spoon fed to the unquestioning masses. This guiding principle has shaped me. It made me give up my support of the Death Penalty and may one day (God forbid) make me a vegetarian (if they can prove cows have the capacity to morally reason).

Killing a person I feel is always wrong. Sometimes it may be necessary, but the act IS intrinsically wrong. My world changing moment came on September 12 2002 when I teacher tried to play down the attack on the World Trade Center saying that for the Hijackers what they did was not wrong. Not letting the subject die the teacher eventually said that what they did was good for them but not for me but I could not judge their opinion, I said ya because they were dead and got sent to the principals office where I just got angrier.

That is just one example though of an absolute but the easiest to understand. Moral Absolutes are what we deal with most often but this behaviour gets more treacherous the more it gets distilled. Because 2+2 does not equal 5 even if Johnny does not realize it.