How Open Minded Do You Consider Yourself?

[afleitch]

I think I'm broadly open minded, but the rational part of my brain kicks in a lot (aspergers woot!) when I focus on alot of issues, especially ones that are considered 'moral'; this leads me to taking very relaxed positions on those issues because social authoritarianism/conservatism is often an irrational response to a social issue. Appeals to tradition and more recently faith don't hold much with me. On economics I'm generally right of centre but they change depending on the state of the economy (as they should) For example about a year ago I would have backed away from big government capital investment programmes during an economic downturn, but it's been done in Scotland, is working, is measured so I now cannot oppose it on a purely ideological basis.