Yeah, you do. Otherwise it's just you declaring your bias as the truth. Do some do this or that on your list? Of course. In what numbers? It's important. Is some of that list contextually assumptive? It is.
- support capital punishment, not just for murderers, but for rapists, pedophiles, and in some cases even thieves.
I don't think you have to be a right winger to support capital punishment. I don't agree with it, but I know people who do across the spectrum. I don't know anyone who believes in putting people to death for stealing. I know a great many people who believe in CP for murder who would object on rape (many of those because it encourages murder among rapists). So you lump too much even at the outset.
- support the proliferation of deadly weapons regardless of the consequences.
See, there's your bias running off the rails. I don't believe that anyone would agree with that statement as set out. "Regardless of the consequences" makes it irrational prima facie. You can support the right to bear arms (especially the Koala) without believing we should arm bears indiscriminately or without regard for the forest. Flintlocks, by way of example, would be a very poor thing to allow, especially in dry tinder.
Well, if you're going to be absurd you invite a bit of it, don't you?
- support the use of deadly force to protect property.
Unless they're mind readers property can become a personal threat issue. Or do you mean, honestly mean to suggest most right wing Christians would support shooting someone running away in the back?
- support the elimination of most or all forms of public aid.
I don't believe it and you won't establish it. I think most conservatives favor workfare and training to get someone on their feet and a part of the contributing class. The objection is to programs that by their nature encourage indolence.
- oppose national health care systems of any kind.
You mean a government run or socialized bit of medicine? Because we've had a health care system for generations. We're mostly arguing over how to fix it.
For? Because as a blanket statement it's logically problematic. Just say gays if you mean gays. And that's partly a generational distinction and one in flux. This
link might interest you. It has actual data and some of it you might even use.
The rest of the list is too sweeping and lump summing.
Your silly insistence on supporting data was just the only weak response you could come up with, here, I realize.
When anyone tries to link a call for empirical proof relating to an essentially empirical claim with an argumentative weakness, they've crossed over into the land of zealot and irrationality.
But not even you can claim one of these positions is not overwhelmingly endemic of the American conservative Christian attitude.
I'm not in the declare the unsupported truth game. My gut on it? You're mostly overblown and wrong headed, mistaken by your bias and whatever is at the root of it. But I'm open to good data.
And not even you can spin these positions as being particularly reverent of human life.
I don't have an interest in spinning, only understanding and answering as reasonably as I can on a general and to my mind emotionally blinding bias you seem caught up in.
Oh! I see! It's INNOCENT life they revere, now.
No, you don't see because that's still not what I said. And it isn't "now" it's period. Revere God, protect the innocent. Christians don't worship at the alter of life, but of the originator of it.
But of course that's not a reverence for a human life, it's only a reverence for a prospective human life.
No, it's a reverence for God and a protection of the innocent. I know it's not what you want to hear, because it's going to be hard for you to cast it in that light you love, but that's the way of it.
A life that's still "innocent".
Right. Like most rational people they distinguish between a serial killer and a fireman.
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An imaginary human being that has not actually manifested, yet.
No, just a human being who hasn't hit a particular milestone that opens your eyes to its right and existence, apparently.
Ah yes, the fantasy of "innocence"
It isn't a fantasy, but there's no profit in speaking to it with someone in your position (rejecting both the context, subjectively and disdaining empirical and objective data in the formation of conclusions, supra) and it's off the point of your initial irrationality.
That's a pathetic excuse for a response, TH, even from a lawyer.
You're a lawyer? Because that was you talking just then, not me.
Which item on that list do you propose are NOT an overwhelmingly common position among American conservative Christians?
Your list is a horrible jumble of over reaching combined with errant bits of conclusion and non of it supported by more than your general outrage and gall...I don't propose to speak for numbers I don't have against accusations you can't support beyond leveling them.
Well, ahhh …, mathematics? Ten cents is pretty clearly 1/1,000th of 100 dollars.
I thought you were being symbolic, not stupid, or I would have said, "That's not reflective, give me something rational to work with that's in the ball park."
So that the purchasing power of a dime would be 1/1,000th the purchasing power of a C-note.
That's better, but it still needs a base in power. So I can live on X and a man whose product or company employs me has Y times that X and gets, by virtue of that idea and/or risk a much greater return?
Sure. And a much greater loss if it doesn't go well for him. While I can get another job with another risk taker.
What part of this is confusing you, that you need further "citations"? How is it humanly possible for one person to out-produce another by 1,000 times?
I'm not confused and you've created a false comparison. It's not about the fellow who can produce the most widgets deserving the most reward, except among the competing widget making employees.
The differences between humans is just not that great. Do you really believe that Bill Gates worked thousands of times harder, or faster, or more efficiently than everyone else?
No, I think he had an idea that allowed thousands of people who might have fared much worse find differing levels of gainful employment and reward.
Or do you think he was just an average guy in the right place at the right time in an economy that rewards those who enable massive profits on capital investment?
Of course not.
Yet this is the absurdity of saying that because Bill Gate became a billionaire, anyone can become a billionaire.
No, it's noting that the system rewards ideas and that anyone who can have them is in a position to do great things.
Your "point" is both absurd and dishonest.
It's neither. Your attempt, as I noted above, was mistaken in its contextual comparison.