[trisham]

In the traditional adult world...its understood that doing the right thing is often the "unpopular" thing. Thats why doing the right thing is hard and the wrong thing is easy. If I based my moral decisions on "what other people think" I'd probably be dead, in jail or would have hurt a great many people.

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Unfortunately, you are quite right. Doing the wrong thing is so much easier than doing the right thing. I've heard that excuse that some have made about "people outside Free Republic thinking this is what Free Republic is all about" a lot lately. It's used to justify some pretty unlikely viewpoints, given the stated perspective of the owner. There seems to be an almost anarchical attitude among some here, which seems more to belong to the other side.

[wagglebee]

This might interest you on all of those who think that becoming more liberal is a good strategy.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735897/posts