Having read quite a bit on Islam and the societies that integrate that into their culture, I found one thing very interesting and troubling.
But it seems to run in fundamentalist type conservatives as well. In Islam, in the fundamentalist societies, they reject free will and believe that society and laws should be used to FORCE people to act in a certain way.
You mean like forcing people to use certain light bulbs or drive certain cars or use certain energy sources or force people to buy insurance? Those types of fundamentalist acts? Is that what you are talking about? Cuz if so, you are right, conservatives are always trying to force people to buy SmartCars
In this way, it's almost like zero tolerance policies....someone ELSE makes all your decisions for you and (you hope) forces others to make as well. Instead of free will, they rely on the state...often run by religious men or laws....to MAKE people adhere to laws based on personal choices, rather than allowing individuals to do so thru free will.
I've read this a few times. In one case, it was a biography of a woman who was a hostage in the Phillipines for a yr and had a day to day relationship with her Muslim captors. They explained this to her several times.
They preferred to have others take personal responsibility away and in its place, use punitive sanctions on those who broke Allah's laws. They preferred this and expected it for themselves as well. Like needing and preferring structure.
I think that any social conservative that wants the govt in America (fed or state) to make laws based on people's private choices (that do not infringe on the rights of others) is looking for this as well.
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