<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">If you would read that section of Wikipedia, you would find that in some places the meanings are reversed or different, or or or.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It seems like political opinions come in so many categories that they rival the Baptists, who split off into a different church every other Sunday.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Yeah, I think we can still use the terms. I have reminded the group several times that I am different from the crazies in Ivy League colleges who don't seem to understand the first amendment, or other parts of the Bill of Rights. I am a liberal libertarian but that still does not really explain all I believe in. And I am so ignorant of economics that I don't know where I stand there, except a totally free market lets too many companies make shoddy and dangerous goods. 'Regulation' is a good word to me, though it does seem that many agencies drown people in paperwork, which I wonder if anyone reads anyway.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:17 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 10:49 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>And what does anti abortion and pro guns have in common, why are they both conservative, couldn't you be for one and against the other ?</font><font size="4"><br></font><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Of course you can, and that's why there are different categories. bill w</i></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If there are as many categories of "conservative" as you say and you need that many words to modify the adjective to give it meaning then the word has lost most of its usefulness; "I am conservative" contains very little information as Shannon defines "information" because you will have learned very little new about the person who spoke the words.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div> </div></div></div>
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