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Conservative Student Values

As a conservative and the member of a longstanding conservative family, I identify four major sources for my conservatism-my Christian faith, my morality, a resistance to liberal thinking and politics, and my belief that conservative economic policies are vital to keep the country from going into further debt. My Christian faith places me in a conservative status even before issues of government are considered, since liberal philosophies invite practices that Christianity views as sin-homosexuality and abortion, for example. In addition, liberal ethical philosophies like situation ethics are the opposite of what I believe, since they assume that practically anything is okay as long as someone can offer up a reasonable explanation for it. My morality is based on Christianity and unchanging principles of right and wrong, not the constantly shifting sands of public opinion or liberal agendas. I believe that there are absolutes, not the gray areas that liberals are always using to justify practices that are unjustifiable according to Biblical standards. From an economic standpoint, liberal philosophies advocate spending a seemingly endless amount of money rather than actually fixing the underlying problems. Liberals throw money at situations that in many cases were actually caused by unethical behavior to begin with. The solution is simple-behave ethically-but liberals choose to keep funding their unethical behavior instead, to the tune of trillions of dollars in American debt. This is very misguided thinking that results in a continuous cycle of greater and greater misbehavior followed by greater and greater debt.

It is interesting that some movements in the 1950s and 1960s that were anti-conservative have been important to the development of my thinking. The hippie movement, for example, was a well-intended movement gone wrong due to liberal thinking. Hippies are "utopians who pose an alternative to existing s...

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