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synapsing_at_random t1_jaelx2l wrote

Reply to comment by Shellsbells821 in Connecticut lawmakers considering legislation to give terminally ill patients medical aid in dying by 76before84

As a conservative, I will always allow the choice of the individual over the choice of the state.

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_Xanderjr_ t1_jaepnv0 wrote

Maybe conservative in the traditional sense but literally the opposite ideals of the republican party.

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mmmmm_pancakes t1_jaeski9 wrote

You're right to call them on out this, as it's been an absurd claim from conservatives for several decades now. These days, they hate individual choice whenever that might threaten the interests of wealthy white men; trans rights, voting rights, abortion, etc.

That said, they have been ideologically consistent on this when it suits their needs: guns, schools, healthcare, the environment. It's a selfish stance that results in terrible, destructive policy on all of those issues, but in those areas "individual choice" is still a genuine conservative ideal.

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