Conservativism

1) Burke was against the French revolution primarily because it was a primary example of a people trying to redefine the spirit of man and going about that task with a power struggle. The value of the staples of human society -- church, guild, family, town, etc. -- were completely tossed about or tossed out. These staples tied man to the real world; instead, the Revolution with it's eventual consequence of rampant individualism would lead to a world where each man was tied only to himself.

2) Jeremy Bentham is best characterized as a left liberal. He directly espouses extreme utilitarianism -- separating all decisions from anything other than cold reason. But the consequence of this is shown to be all the hallmarks of left liberalism: swollen bureaucracy, a spirit of "permanent reform", "bloodless charity", and the notion that essentially, the past if of no use for man.

3) Simple solutions rarely ever take into account all of the complexities that go into societal ills: no one stop shopping for society! They create inefficiencies or cause other secondary problems. Prejudices are almost everything in economic and political decision making. They are the original position, the base upon which one stands when he surveys the landscape and identifies problems. Based on these starting points, these prejudices, one man might identify something as a problem that another man sees as fitting in perfect harmony with the rest of society.