[Veen]

That was a more thoughtful response than I expected. Thank you. I largely agree, but I do think that a reasonable and intelligent person can disagree with transgender activism or gay marriage, for example, and still make a useful contribution in many areas of society, including the one under discussion.

Conservatives will almost always be "behind" progressives where progressive social issues are concerned, by definition. Even when they aren't trash-talking outrage merchants, they are inclined to support traditional institutions and social arrangements. There needn't be any malice in this: they want to conserve the good and are hesitant to overturn age-old ways of being for fear of unintended consequences.

That's precisely why I think theirs is a position worth listening to in debates around the ethics of new technologies and their possible impact on society. It's an important consideration and one we're not going to hear from techno-utopians or many on the left.