Parenting style and childhood temperament might play roles in shaping one's political mindset, new research suggests. Specifically, kids who have fearful temperaments and are raised by parents who value obedience are more likely to endorse conservative ideologies as young adults, the study found.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
So if you want to raise disobedient children who turn into jailbirds, addicts, and other non productive members of society, raise them liberal? Agreed.
bcspace wrote:So if you want to raise disobedient children who turn into jailbirds, addicts, and other non productive members of society, raise them liberal? Agreed.
Thanks, bc. I was hoping you'd nibble.
I was thinking more along the lines that children raised by thoughtful, kind parents would be more likely to be generous, sympathetic and concerned for the less fortunate among us.
Children raised by strict, authoritarian parents would be more likely to have much less compassion.
I believe that a very high percentage of 'jailbirds' have suffered abuse as a child.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
I was thinking more along the lines that children raised by thoughtful, kind parents would be more likely to be generous, sympathetic and concerned for the less fortunate among us.
I was thinking more along the lines that children raised by thoughtful, kind parents would be more likely to be generous, sympathetic and concerned for the less fortunate among us.
Yes. But then they wouldn't be liberal.
You're a lost cause.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
bcspace wrote:So if you want to raise disobedient children who turn into jailbirds, addicts, and other non productive members of society, raise them liberal? Agreed.
I agree Bcspace. Give us anal retentive children rather than liberals if that is really a choice.
Quasimodo wrote:I was thinking more along the lines that children raised by thoughtful, kind parents would be more likely to be generous, sympathetic and concerned for the less fortunate among us.
Children raised by strict, authoritarian parents would be more likely to have much less compassion.
If we're talking about politics, how can "compassion" be part of the discussion? There's nothing "compassionate" about forcibly taking money from one person and giving it to someone else.
It may be necessary for whatever reason, but it can't be "compassion", and we should never fool ourselves into thinking it is.
Unless being liberal means thinking it is "compassion" to do so. In that case, it's a worldview based on a misunderstanding.
cinepro wrote:If we're talking about politics, how can "compassion" be part of the discussion? There's nothing "compassionate" about forcibly taking money from one person and giving it to someone else.
Why did 'tithing' pop into my head...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
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cinepro wrote:If we're talking about politics, how can "compassion" be part of the discussion? There's nothing "compassionate" about forcibly taking money from one person and giving it to someone else.
If we're talking about politics, how can "compassion" be part of the discussion? There's nothing "compassionate" about forcibly taking money from one person and giving it to someone else.
It may be necessary for whatever reason, but it can't be "compassion", and we should never fool ourselves into thinking it is.
Unless being liberal means thinking it is "compassion" to do so. In that case, it's a worldview based on a misunderstanding.
Liberalism is a false compassion as you have illustrated.
You're a lost cause.