This baby is this woman's fourth child, and received a fatal diagnosis in utero. Opposed to abortion for any reason, she forced him to be born to a short life of unrelenting pain and shortness of breath, which she is incapable of providing for. Her fifth baby died in utero. She is a monster.
Conservatives have a dysfunctional relationship with moral consistency & have unintegrated value systems.
Examples:
1. Abortion
They are opposed to it for other people, until they themselves need one.
2. Diet
They support cutting SNAP benefits, creating food deserts, & advertising garbage carbs for Americans until they themselves get diabetes, strokes, or heart attacks.
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Aren't there literally studies showing that they think they're an 'exception' to all these?
Like, "Yes, my Husband the Senator votes against abortion and I think it's immoral and those dirty poor folk should just learn Godfearing chastity... No, my three abortions from three different pool boys aren't hypocritical because those are legitimate requirements."
Same thing here in Australia.
We have a National Disability Insurance Scheme that supports the disabled. Surprisingly, that costs money. Even more surprisingly, conservatives want to cut costs there.
One conservative politician here is torn, torn I tell you. He wants to "repair the budget", but he also has a 5 yo autistic daughter.
It doesn't occur to him that there are other budget repairs, like corporations that pay no tax. Slash the NDIS. Except for my daughter.
tbh I'd argue they are conditioned to regard empathy and compassion in general as weakness - and that the apparent empathy towards their circle is not empathy at all, but a set of rule-based obligations that they fulfill from duty, not desire.
this is how we get those statements out of them that 'empathy is bad' - they partition their behavior towards their close connections not as empathetic, but as obligatory.
which is also where all the child abuse comes from - they can, e.g., hit a child "for their own good" even tho they know it hurts the kid. the ostensible 'rules' of their society supersede any sense of care or compassion that might otherwise "get in the way" of what they "need to do" in order for "society to keep functioning"
@volts.wtf Most humans throughout most of history only extended empathy and altruism to their tribe.
Western civilization is the weird exception with a wide circle of trust.
What you call conservatives are the norm in most of the world.
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