But a conservative would say, you know, there's this thing called wisdom. And we've been accumulating it for thousands of years, and that accumulated wisdom tells us some things that might keep you from making those decisions in the first place. Those things are easy to explain. Some, though, are very hard to explain. That doesn't make them any less true.
Reason often enlightens, but it can also corrode.
Anyone who has tried to explain a beloved tradition to a skeptical outsider knows this full well. One place that harbored some of the greatest lessons of human civilization was American public education until about thirty years ago. They're working just fine. Let's give them everything they need. I know I owe many corrections and clarifications for the past week.