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« on: September 17, 2014, 11:27:01 PM »

While I've changed viewpoints on various issues here and there as I've been exposed to better facts and methodologies, I wouldn't really count that as major shifts, really they were refinements more than anything.  But there have been two big things:

a) when I was a little kid, I held several Catholic socon views, like being pro-life and anti-premarital sex and such...

and b) when I was young I preferred stand-on-principle radical tactics to working "within the system", and now I am by and large the opposite.

Changing A was a long, slow transition, which began when I started questioning why women couldn't be priests, and didn't really end until I was in college.  It was an accretion of many things which I couldn't really enumerate if I tried.

Changing B happened a lot quicker, and was the inevitable result of seeing what this caused:

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