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3 Post author: NancyLebovitz 24 October 2014 03:27PM

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Comment author: knb 25 October 2014 05:40:36AM 5 points [-]

I seem to be one of the tiny number of people on LW who are conservative but not a "neo-reactionary." I'm socially conservative in the sense that I think the classical virtues are real virtues--I would like to live in a society that supports the classical virtues in its people.

I don't fit into ordinary US-conservatism on most levels. I'm very anti-interventionist and I think the US has had a profoundly destructive role in the world since the cold war era began. I'm not against "big government" as long as it isn't wasteful or overly complex. I'm also a transhumanist, but I don't really think transhumanism is inherently anti-conservative.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 October 2014 07:59:35AM 0 points [-]

What do you consider to be the classical virtues? How would a government support them?