For instance the no suicide rule which overrules present condition such as intolerable quality of life due to incurable and excruciating pain. The principle is to be preserved regardless of the consequence to the individual. The complete absence of all circumstance that would encourage suicide such as in the case of torture or life
in prison or the intolerable quality of life due to pain is a progressive ideal. Thus
Pseudo-conservative principles such as anti-abortion, against euthanasia, prohibitions against drugs, alcohol or what is considered unacceptable sexual
practice are really progressive ideals that much of the time unrealistic, and the only thing Conservative is the desire for their preservation.
There are small pockets of true Conservatives throughout the world generally without power, although for the most part they have been eliminated. The Conservatism of today is generally takes the form of fundamentalist
Religions. Most Religion is considered here as Progressive since its authority lies with the acquisition of progressed states. However religious fundamentalism is a mixture of the Progressive, Conservative and Pseudo-conservative. It is Progressive in the sense that its goals are the pursuit of states of progressed divine properties, as compared to the natural world, or states of perfection such as heaven, the perfected soul, perfect love, honor or justice. The individual is suppose to correspond conduct to accord with these advanced ideals. Fundamentalism is generally Conservative in the sense that it is often prohibitive of material acquisition and progressed development, the drive for wealth, property, power and ego, with the exception of religions like Calvinism and Mormonism where material success and wealth may be considered a sign of God's grace. The reason that material acquisition is frowned upon may be because the sources of authority generally dates back at least 2000 years before the advent of modern progressive development, but more so it is probably because the natural world is considered as God's creation and to the extent that God is divine so is the world created equally as sacrosanct. Also proper human activity and conduct should be concerned with care and development of the soul and things like charity and good works as opposed to crass material acquisition.
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