yeah, or a strict teaching or something. conservatism isn't just an american thing, its a universal human personality that exists in every time period, in every culture, in every religion and in every society. its a personality type. for ex, in the roman empire, the conservatives stuck to latin cultural/religion/philosophy/etc. in ancient china, the conservatives stuck to confucianism/daoism/buddhism as three guiding moral foundations. in india, hindus stick to their guns, in iran they stick to islamic teachings. so too are there guiding principles for atheists who aren't particularly one way or another about religion but are rather are more practically minded. golden rule is particularly perceptive since it props up in every culture/religion/society, its part of game theory as it was instrumental to evolving humans from small families to tribals to villages to country sized societies.
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