I know that's the ideology at the top, but for your average Conservative would that really apply in any meaningful way? I would think your average evangelical would complain about teen pregnancies.
The average joes just go along with what they're told and don't question it. They just repeat what they're told by the people at the top, whether or not they've thought about it.
It is probably useful to split the concept of "arguments for X" into "social function of X" and "rationalization of X".
I know that's the ideology at the top, but for your average Conservative would that really apply in any meaningful way? I would think your average evangelical would complain about teen pregnancies.
The average joes just go along with what they're told and don't question it. They just repeat what they're told by the people at the top, whether or not they've thought about it.
It is probably useful to split the concept of "arguments for X" into "social function of X" and "rationalization of X".