The danger is in being reactionary. They come out with a radical proposal like banning the cutting of trees to save the environment. While that is a worthy goal, it would put thousands of lumberjacks, newspaper people, and carpenters out of work and deprive us of wood needed to make paper and build houses. Conservatives immediately came back with opposition to it, which paints them as unconcerned about the damage we are doing to the environment. However, calmer heads realized the damage from each of those positions and enacted laws to require companies to plant a tree for every tree they cut down. That saved the jobs and continued to provide the lumber we need without damaging the environment. We need to be careful about just reacting and insist on a full examination of the issues in order to find a middle ground. While they insist that their ideas are based on science and conservative ideas are just baseless ideas, the fact is that a full examination of their positions show that their ideas are often based on appearances which can be deceiving. To counter their ideas, we must seek the facts to back up our position. They say that a baby is not fully formed until it is born, however we now have ultrasounds that shows that it is fully formed and we can detect a heartbeat and brainwaves within a couple weeks of conception, showing that it is a complete person and fully functioning by the time that most babies are aborted.