As for that story, yes, I'm aware that his was the result of a tumor, and there have been other cases where people have been in car accidents and the like, and that was the reason for posting it, really. To show that there is a whole lot about our brain chemistry and biology that we really have no understanding of yet, but we're getting closer, and things like that might actually point to a way where we can possibly eradicate this kind of twisted stuff.
As for your drivers for people to be liberal, good stuff. I can say that my parents weren't liberal, and so far as I'm aware, I'm not mentally diseased! What bugs me so much about the whole liberal/conservative debate really is the way in which the whole thing gets blown out of proportion on just a handful of issues, and both sides are equally guilty of this. For the most part, most of us would probably agree on just about everything. But liberals do understand freedom...we prize it too, we just prize other types of freedoms. I mean, as an example, I'm an anthropologist by profession, so I'm always off traveling around and making phone calls all over the world, and as I do my work around violence, I will talk about a lot of horrible stuff on the phone just in the nature of doing my work. Occassionally that means that I have to call colleagues in Sri Lanka, or Pakistan or wherever they may be, and I don't want the government to be able to just listen in on my phone calls. I've got absolutely nothing to hide, and if they want to do it, they can do it legally and spend the 10 minutes it takes to get a warrant...but I want that thing signed first.
"the Mods here actually will boot people for being liberal? "
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Well, no.
In my post I alluded to why libs get the boot:
"You are the first liberal I've seen on this site who was actually not a frothing fountain of hate and abject stupidity."