Wednesday, April 09, 2008
The Benefits of Doubting – And Not
We all tend to give "the benefit of a doubt" to some side in the issues of the day, and we all are occasionally wrong in our often misplaced sympathies.
Conservatives (classical liberals) in open systems tend to reserve their benefit of a doubt to the decisions and actions of their own free societies and associated systems.
Driven by an obsessive hatred of business enterprise and the success of others, leftists more often than not, direct their doubt benefits to dictators and utopian/authoritarian political schemes. They do this knowing that if such stances were to triumph it would ultimately deprive the benefit of freedom and individual expression to millions, or at minimum control their economic lives and reduce their standard of living. And for this they fancy themselves heroes, "rebels," and scholars of great insight.
Though a specific judgment may occasionally be incorrect, affording the benefit of a doubt to democratic society is an easy exercise in common sense. Cutting some slack to dictators and their intellectual support system is merely an easy exercise in moral corruption and stupidity.
