TIL that tort reform is a simple way to make "liberals" visiously attack the disabled
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Okay, not quite. Apparently the $5,000 case cost $500,000 in legal fees.
What the actual fuck.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Also, I don't get how tort reform and liberals got into this.
...oh fuck this. Poe, you win.
keeping in mind that the term does not necessarily imply either radical left politics or any real commitment to social progressivism in the modern political climate
But obviously, the term has acquired several more specific senses with meanings which are often outright opposed to one another. Thus a supporter of the free market (which in one sense could be considered extremely liberal) can use the term disparagingly with reference to somebody who wants the government to more closely regulate the market.
And yeah you could probably trace Lockean influences on leftist thought, either via the Western philosophical tradition that produced Marx or more directly on Wollstonecraft, but Locke is clearly not the father of the modern left.
Really tho words change and the modern sense of 'liberal' usually implies either left-wing, or a specific variant thereof; or right-wing, or a specific variant thereof. It very seldom implies a movement encompassing both left- and right-wingers.
Obviously. Hence the perceived need for terms like libertarian, neoliberal, etc.
I would say that the left has been post-liberal (socialist) since the mid-19th century, and now liberals are conservative, with some libertarians being reactionary, at least on the social contract between the state and poor people (while conceding social issues to the left where it values individual liberty).
I don't know how helpful it is to be a descriptivist, since the main meanings are opposite in, say, the US and Australia.
i guess prescriptivism is at least consistent, if you don't mind having to explain yourself all the time and getting into extended semantic derails like this one :p