• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wilholt’s law, “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    Aka, “you’re not hurting the right people”

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

      ― John Kenneth Galbraith