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So what are these other opinions? Can you name some?
There's a comment here that literally says "conservative opinion is worthless"
In Colombia, we have a leftist president. A lot of criticism for the corruption scandals, the economic managment and the increase in guerilla activity comes from the right wing in the country. It's necessary to have such criticism/opinions, so I disagree with the implication that all conservative opinion is inherently worthless.
I'm not saying that you have to adapt/incorporate/agree with all conservatives, but there's more nuance to the topic.
I guess in America, our current metric for conservative is worshipping Donald Trump and licking his boots with zero individual thought. So there’s not really any actual conservative insight remaining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
I can see why someone would say that basing your ethics and politics on local tradition rather than, for exemple, utilitarism, is pointless and shouldn't even be considered.
In practice nobody truly follows their theorical ethical stance. Conservative* politicians usually take a vague inspiration from conservatism, and base most of their decisions on whatever will get them in power. That usually means opposition when they're not up there, and holding the most popular opinions regardless of whether they match their ideology.
The ethics-practice gap is especially large for politicians, that sometimes don't even believe the opinions that they are supporting. But as a general statement, humans are so bad at having coherent opinions that they can not be dismissed for having an incorrect ethical basis. Or fully trusted for having a correct one
*Also applies to other ideologies