- 12 Nov 2013 02:06
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It's not about whether the morality is 'traditional' or not, it's about whether it has a clearly defined structure in which people know what to expect, and whether ties of blood and proximity are upheld within a community.
Basically 'doing broadly what everyone else around you is doing', whatever that happens to be, is stable, it's just a question of whether 'what everyone else is doing' happens to cause productive outcomes.
Social conservatives often make the mistake of conflating stability with productivity. It is possible to create a completely stable society built on unproductive rubbish policies, and it is also possible to create a completely stable society build on very productive policies. Social conservatives have a bad habit of producing the former and then calling that 'victory'.
More recently in history though, they've just decided that they want to be led by business leaders, so they create a completely unstable society built atop the shifting sands of neoliberalism, and then clog up everyone's airwaves complaining about the consequences of that decision which they made.
Basically 'doing broadly what everyone else around you is doing', whatever that happens to be, is stable, it's just a question of whether 'what everyone else is doing' happens to cause productive outcomes.
Social conservatives often make the mistake of conflating stability with productivity. It is possible to create a completely stable society built on unproductive rubbish policies, and it is also possible to create a completely stable society build on very productive policies. Social conservatives have a bad habit of producing the former and then calling that 'victory'.
More recently in history though, they've just decided that they want to be led by business leaders, so they create a completely unstable society built atop the shifting sands of neoliberalism, and then clog up everyone's airwaves complaining about the consequences of that decision which they made.