I've got a close friend who's conservative on most things, but is adamantly opposed to capital punishment. He's also strongly pro-life, and he won't budge on the issue of guilt or innocence. I've talked to him about it many times. He won't change his position and that's that. But I still like him very much.
I agree with your perspective, Tom.
All of my friends are more left-wing or progressive or socialist, whatever, than me. I’ve gotten used to it.
I am represented in Parliament by a lefty NDPer who worked as a Russian translator in the civil service; my neighbours mostly think he is barely lefty enough, so I am familiar with the left-liberal species.
Luckily, we Canadians mostly hold ourselves to public politeness, and an affable spirit results in settlements like my little crosshatch in the Empty Quarter. On a website such as this, however, I do enjoy the opportunity to be as snarkily cruel as I please occasionally.
FReegards,
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