>>The New Scientist has argued that “on the slow-sinking Titanic … there was time for [the] social norm of giving priority to women and children to establish themselves” whereas on the Lusitania where survivors were largely strong men between 16 and 35, “instinct and bodily strength dictated survival”. The first was a liberal response to a shipwreck; and the second a conservative.<<

No; the first response is conservative and the second liberal. Society functions, or tries to, by having laws and traditions that keep the strong from doing and taking whatever they want; conservatives seek to "conserve" these. Liberals don't protect the weak, they protect the biologically strong- violent young men and the fertile peasant families they come from- from the socially and intellectually strong, who by cooperating and thinking ahead are able to accumulate some capital, even as little as the week's wages in their wallet or purse.