You do realize you are doing exactly the same here ? (assuming the morality of someone based on how you appreciate their opinion)
I don't really know how you got this from post.
That's nothing specific to "conservative", it's a universal human behavior.
I don't actually disagree. It seems, for want of a better word,
natural that human s But that doesn't mean it true. It's a kind of magical thinking, a conviction that because the world should be ordered in a certain way, it must be; that because certain actions should produce certain outcomes, they must produce certain outcomes. In practice, this collapses almost immediately, and anyone over the age of maybe eight or nine will notice this, so to preserve the framework of a rightly-ordered universe, we start taking the outcomes and explaining their causes retroactively. "Good girls don't get rape" is an offensive nonsense, but we can preserve it by insisting that victims of rape are "bad girls", leveraging whatever slander and rationalisation we can bring to hand. Whether or not we can prove it is unimportant so long as we
feel that we have proved it, because this whole framework privileges the gut far above the brain.
This works so long as we continue to live in a world haunted by spooks and spirits, when the relationship between cause and effective is mediated by symbolic relationships as much as material ones, but it begins to break down in the light of modern, materialistic understanding. In the face of, you might say, Enlightenment. The fundamental divide between conservatives and progressives (the latter used in the broad sense, really covering anyone from classical liberals through to anarchist-communists) is whether they're prepared to accept this shift in thought. And the longer conservatives hold out, the more inconsistent, the more thoroughly senile, their politics become.
I'm pretty sure that this is not what the people who talk about a 'fallen world' or 'total depravity' have in mind.
Well, that's the funny thing about conservative magical thinker, the naturally-ordered world always hangs on the edge of crisis. They're incapable of imagining a world that is merely imperfect or unfair, because that would imply the absence of divine order (whether or not its described in so many words), and such an absence must be, if not total, then at least marked. God is with his people, or he is not; he can't be
sorta with his people. He doesn't have weekend custody. We either live in the best of all possible worlds, or we live in a fallen world of suffering and sin, and the peculiar madness of "Moral Majority" conservativism emerges from the attempt to apply both these equally deranged convictions at the same time.