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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Please answer all three questions, without saying "I've already done so"...

Originally Posted by Skybird

I already asnwered that,

Sorry, couldn't resist.

The reason you get so much resistance from me is not that you disagree, but that you come across as 'preachy'. In fact in my own head I see you as a religious fanatic, talking down to people because you "know" that you're right.

I say that not to insult you, because I don't know you at all or what you are actually like. But that's how you come across, at least to me.

I, on the other hand, "know" that I'm wrong, or at least that there's a good chance I am. My absolutism on freedom is nowhere near as absolute as you might think, but the people I deal with daily are the ones who want to take away freedom from a different angle. They would erode our freedoms in the name of "saving our country", i.e. take away freedom in the name of preserving it. I see this not in you personally, but in some of the things you've said. It really is a fine line, and to me some of your ideas seem to be of the nature I fight against the most. I really do see some of your ideas as just as dangerous as those you oppose.

That said, I won't address the answers you gave, not because I dismiss them, but because they were reasonable and certainly have some merit, so I have to think about them for awhile. Thanks for actually laying all that out for me.