My parents didn't talk politics so I wasn't raised on any set of beliefs from either side but I was raised in a Christian home that at the time was a bit.....different in their beliefs. They're straightened out from all of that business. That's all I'll say about that.

I was a rebel and thought they were bat crap crazy so left home at 17 and have lived a very different life than most here the details of which aren't important.

I served in the Army and am Libertarian. I do have personal values that can sometimes seem to contradict the Libertarian mindset, those tend to go more to the righr, but then there are some things that I tend to see more on the left. More often than not though I guess I am a moderate Libertarian.

I believe in people taking personal responsibility, that there are consequences for actions, and rarely is there a scenario in which one is actually in the wrong place at the wrong time. We all make choices that put us where we end up at any given time. I believe people are capable of anything; good, bad, ugly, or indifferent. Given the "perfect storm" of circumstances we are all capable of truly wonderful or truly heinous things. I am not a glass half empty or half full kind of person. I say, "Why limit yourself? There is no glass." Expand your mind.

I believe in respecting people until they give me a reason not to. I don't care about your race, religion, socioeconomic status, where you come from. I have no quarrel with you until you give me a reason otherwise. Even then, depending on the situation I may not even care enough for it to register on a personal level. I'll probably bicker and moan about it but at the end of the day unless you're specific people to me I don't really care. Most of the time we'll just agree to disagree and move on. I have learned a lot from the people on this board and have had points of view changed on a few things. I think we are always learning, if we allow ourselves to, until we die. If we're not learning then we're not being challenged and that's a sad thing.

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