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I have a friend who pretty closely fits the description. I don't know if he fully deserves the conservative label I suppose, but he's an atheist and strict vegan. He's pretty well read in Western philosophy, though he seems to gravitate towards thinkers that I'm personally skeptical of, especially Hegel, though I don't really care enough to study him and other historicist philosophers to really have a substantive debate with him, beyond the bad vibes i suppose. Relatedly, he seems to occasionally be sympathetic towards some socialist economic theories, where we have the opposite situation in terms of how well-informed I consider myself vs. him. However, on all the other culture war issues he's way in the conservative camp.
On the dating thing, I think he should realize that if a woman likes and respects her man, she will adopt his values or at least change to become more compatible with them. Speaking also from personal experience, having impossibly high standards like this is also a way to rationalize avoidant behavior, stemming from anxiety about interacting with the opposite gender.
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