If I wanted to debate Conservative people, which I rarely do, what you mentioned about variation would come up a lot. I have said to my Conservative Catholic cousin-in-law, that variation is normal and that things that vary from the norm are not pathological. If they keep turning up consistently, they are part of whatever we are talking about.
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