tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post1485998279557869080..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: Power without justiceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-39330285819052606142018-10-12T14:46:45.215+11:002018-10-12T14:46:45.215+11:00There are two possibilities. Either women were alw...There are two possibilities. Either women were always selfish, spoilt, vicious and filled with irrational anger and feminism just allowed their craziness to blossom, or feminism changed the nature of women.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-37389706955109101332018-10-12T11:06:27.851+11:002018-10-12T11:06:27.851+11:00Liberals tend to view freedom as limitless, rather...Liberals tend to view freedom as limitless, rather than of the zero-sum view that giving freedom from one requires taking it from another. Lived experience tends towards the latter view, as allowing women to divorce limited the rights of fathers to be involved in family life, and according civil rights to blacks caused the end of freedom of association.<br /><br /><br />While the foundation of liberalism and feminism is written into the lawbooks, the courts are a tool of last resort when voluntary economic exchange, economic coercion and social shaming have failed. <br /><br />The remarkable thing about the longevity of liberalism is its abilities to continue to pay the bills. Paul Kennedy, the British historian, considered this one of the key reasons behind the growth of the Empire.<br /><br />This macro level solution also applies at the micro level, what would the power of feminism be if it were not inscribed into law, with a court system that can compel the payment of alimony and child support.<br /><br />Will the tide of "micro-level collapses" be able to do in the whole of society? There are certainly some nihilistic MGTOW types that may ironically favor this, but I think their enthusiastic pessimism ignores the reflexivity of liberalism. A few reforms here and there would act as a release valve, only the obstinate nature of an older generation that expects simaltaneous chivalry and feminism is holding it back. <br />Timnoreply@blogger.com