This is just a small sample list but it covers most people:
“the government should be limited and as small as possible”
“oh well except when a women wants to choose what goes on in her own body, then the government should step in there”
“the prohibition on drugs is racists and does not work, prohibitions never work”
“we need to outlaw guns! No one should be able to buy automatic weapons, just put a prohibition on them and gun violence will stop”
“our government needs to lower spending and not run deficits. We must cut expenses and balance the budget “
“We should have a blank check for military spending and fighting overseas. No cost is too high to keep our boys safe.”
- the not as obvious hypocrisy here is two part. 1 people saying we need to cut the social safety net here in the US, while also saying we need to send citizens off to war and risk their lives. And in the next breath saying not cost is too high to keep those boys safe during war. It’s just idiotic. It’s too expensive to help US citizens out when they are living in the US, but let’s stir up a bunch of wars and waste unimaginable amounts of $ blowing things up, which literally adds 0 to the planet. Objectively building a bomb and then blowing it up and potentially also killing people with it ads at best 0 value to the world, and at worst a very net negative. We do live in a violent world, and to some degree we have to balance the fact that people will do violence to us unless we are prepared to defend ourselves. There is also a huge gab between having a military to protect ourselves, and having a military that polices the entire world and really if we are honest kills a lot of people and stirs up a lot of trouble. I will admit there is credence to the thought that if the US did not police the world there would be more violence, but at the end of the day I think we could even continue to police the world and do it in a way that was much less about the US exploiting other countries for our gain, and more about the US trying to make the world a better place. We have definitely leaned too far to the side exploiting and it really sucks because we don’t have to be that way. It does feel like it would be extremely hard to stop though. Most of our countries problems would be easy to solve, except that a large part of our population watches tons of misinformation on the news and reads tons of misinformation online. It really would be challenging to effect much change in our current environment.
“if you don’t wear a mask then a private business has the right to refuse to serve you. It’s just like no shoes, no shirt, no service.”
“oh well a private business can’t refuse service to someone on religious grounds, they need to serve everyone equally at all times”
- the not as obvious hypocrisy here is that people are telling the religious person that their views are wrong and should be suppressed. And to be total fair I obviously see the difference between refusing someone for a safety reason, vs refusing someone for a religious reason. But I’m not religious. Religious people could very well think disobeying their god/religion is dangerous to them. And at the end of the day no one can definitively say whats real and whats not real when it comes to big picture stuff like religion. It is without a doubt 100% possible that religious people could be correct, there could be a god and they could be living the way that god wants humans to live. I find that highly unlikely, but its possible all the same.