You're talking to a wall, rb336. One of the defining characteristics of the conservative mind is it's incapacity to accommodate ambiguity. Certainty and constancy are vital in all things; uncertainty and mutability are anathama and utterly abhorrent. They only deal in "absolutes" because they are constitutionally unable to operate in the world without them--even when they aren't absolute.
There was a famous psychological experiment conducted years ago in which a drawing of what was clearly a dog was subtly changed over many frames until it was clearly a cat. Shape of the ears, tail, whiskers, snout, etc. were altered ever so slightly from frame to frame.
The series of pictures were shown to several groups of students, each time asking the test subjects to answer the question, "Is this a dog or a cat?"
Those students which were previously identified as "conservative" held onto the category of "dog" long past the point where those previously identified as "liberal" had abandoned it in favor of "cat", and at almost no time did any conservative student say, "I can't tell", which was a common response among liberal students in the middle course of the series.
The point of the example is that for the conservatives, it had to be one or the other. There was no middle ground to which they could comfortably retreat, and when in doubt they tended to resolve the problem in favor of precedent. It clearly wasn't a cat, yet, so it must still be a dog, even though it was impossible to ascertain any of the visually defining characteristics of "dog" which are generally accepted in the general population.
This outcome is not unexpected; after all, they are called conservatives because their first impulse is to conserve what currently exists, to preserve the status quo. Change is uncertain, and uncertainty is deadly and to be avoided at all cost.
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