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Changing Your Mind
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RE: Changing Your Mind
I have not had a significant change in political position in so long I do not remember what the last bit of changing was.  I was raised to be religious, and as a consequence of such silly beliefs, I was quite conservative.  When I became an atheist, I almost instantly changed to liberal.  Over the years, I have gradually become ever further to the left.  In fact, the last time I took one of those online quizzes that rates one for liberal and conservative, authoritarian or libertarian, on the graph, I was placed all the way to the left.  Here is an article about the sort of thing I mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass

So, pretty much everyone else is conservative from my perspective.  But I am well aware of the fact that I am not viewing matters from the center, and have a pretty good idea of where the center is, unlike some fringe people I have encountered (both at the far left and far right, as well as far authoritarian and far libertarian).  In other words, I fully understand that I am at the far left, and do not pretend that my position is in the middle for comparison, unlike some idiots who only seem to be able to compare others to themselves rather than be able to realize how their own position skews such perspectives.

Back to the question of the opening post, my changing in recent decades has been so gradual and so slight that it is hardly noticeable from one year to the next, which makes it difficult to answer the question as asked.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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Changing Your Mind - by Shuffle - August 8, 2015 at 1:07 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by vorlon13 - August 8, 2015 at 1:10 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Minimalist - August 8, 2015 at 2:15 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Napoléon - August 8, 2015 at 7:14 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 8, 2015 at 7:21 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by abaris - August 8, 2015 at 8:08 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by AFTT47 - August 8, 2015 at 3:12 pm
RE: Changing Your Mind - by vorlon13 - August 8, 2015 at 9:34 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Chad32 - August 8, 2015 at 9:57 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Alex K - August 8, 2015 at 10:19 am
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Pyrrho - August 8, 2015 at 1:45 pm
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Dystopia - August 8, 2015 at 3:20 pm
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Pyrrho - August 8, 2015 at 3:59 pm
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Athene - August 8, 2015 at 6:02 pm
RE: Changing Your Mind - by Pyrrho - August 8, 2015 at 6:07 pm

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