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I am a high school teacher on a tropical Pacific island. I teach chemistry and theory of knowledge.

Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology Why being a conservative is a good thing: 3 of 4

The major tenet of any true conservative is an absolute personal adhesion to honesty, truth, and reality, no matter how inconvenient this adherence might be, and they support and defend this with passion and honor. Conservatives know that self-serving expediency can never lead to wisdom, so we stand up for what we believe in with passion and honor. We eschew belief in anything that is not logical and backed up with credible evidence as these are the only reasons for supposing that something is probably true. In addition to advising us to love our enemies, there are two things tha...
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