Conservatism - Anti-Permissiveness

Question 1

What is anti-permissiveness?

Answer 1

Anti-permissiveness is when behaviours that some people may disagree with are not allowed to take place

Question 2

How does anti-permissiveness work?

Answer 2

• anti-permissiveness is not allowing people to make their own moral choices
• this opposes permissiveness, which is when there behaviours are allowed to take place
• in comparison, liberals accept that individuals have the right to determine their own private moral conduct, so long as they are not causing harm to others

Question 3

What are some example of anti-permissiveness?

Answer 3

• thatcher introduced Section 28 of the local Government Act in 2987 which prohibited the mention of homosexuality in school sex education
• some people may disagree with gay marriage as it is not traditional and challenges gender norms
• not allowing gay marriage is an example of anti-permissiveness, and allowing it is an example of permissivess