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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Then what would you call someone who holds those beliefs? The belief that some things ought to be conserved and progress ought to be held back in some circumstances? I would call that conservative in a small c kind of way, as opposed to big c Conservatives that are all about centralised power and handing everything over to big businesses to strip the world clean of anything of value.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Conservators are those that work towards the conservation of things.

Edit: conservation and conservatism are 2 very different things. To work towards conservation of something is not going to be directly tied to political backgrounds: It is not because someone is a socialist or liberal, that they will not want to conserve some things. Everyone will probably have some things (nature, monuments, traditions, ...) that they want to conserve for future generations.