It’s not a conservative thing, it’s a human thing. In order to confront the contradiction, you have to be willing to deal with what that contradiction MEANS. Cause it often means that you were hurting someone, and that will make you feel bad, and your brain really doesn’t like feeling bad. Like, it really really doesn’t like it and will try to reject anything that doesn’t make the bad feeling go away. Ironic, since the fastest way to deal with the guilt is to accept that you caused harm and won’t now that you know it.