Having travelled the world, experienced many people, cultures and races I always saw myself as an open minded,enlightened person. A liberal. Willing to listen with an open mind, share knowledge and built upon the good in this world.

Experience has taught me that there are no black and white in this world.Races nor issues. Yet there are grey areas too. Being a liberal or conservative is one of them. As the tides are changed by the moon, so should your understanding of issues change around us on merit,circumstance or ethics. What do I mean?

Well, we live in such a society today that if you want to be seen as 'cool' and liberated,you call yourself a liberal. Society made us believe that anything else is, well, uncool.

Conservatism = uncool = rightwing = racism

This cannot be further from the truth. In everyone of us there is a bit of both, conservatism and or liberlism. It's a tug-of-war on issues at heart but some 'isms' are more than others, due to experience and our immediate circumstance or surroundings. People are different. Yet if we were just liberal or just conservative, we would either live in an anarchyic or despot world society. We do not. There are some order and I believe it is because we have a balance, or at least for the time being.

I believe you can still be a liberal in general terms but when there is an issue on ethics, we should be intelligent, and strong enough to make the choice between right and wrong. If choosing the 'right' option means being 'conservative' for that specific issue then so be it. If we are really human rights activists, care about unfairness or injustice in this world, then standing up for right, should not be a problem. However, if our 'ethics' are based on being cool then what example are we setting for our children?

Unfortunately in the day and age we live in, the values, not even talking about ethics of many individuals are so tainted, that fear stops them from making a stand.Most individuals are so hell bent on clinging on to their 'liberal trademark', that when something comes along that sound politically correct, but yet is ethically wrong, they would rather be wrong, than to be labeled conservative, politically incorrect, right wing, or heaven forbid, 'racist'!

Is our morals as human being so corrupt that we cannot judge issues on morality anymore? Are we so blinded and held 'prisoner' by words like 'racist', right winger or politically correct, that we are too spineless to make a stand on issues, right or wrong? Allowing double standards and injustice to reign,rather than to lose our liberal admiration from our friends, is just adding to more injustice and double standards.A vicous circle than will have dire consequences as there are no fair balance of justice anymore.

What does it say about our society? We are held at ransom by the power of words which shows our moral decline as individuals, groups or nations. Not only will our children, and their children be worse off due to our inability to judge right from wrong, but each generation will be closer to our extinction as modern humans. The individual who cannot judge right from wrong is doomed for they would rather 'nuke' their soul, than lose their 'liberal status'.

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