RE: Charlie Kirk's Death, Conspiracies, and Social Degradation

My statement of "sane and balanced" perhaps comes from a different viewpoint to many. I often forget how much tribalism plays a huge part in how we react to things and the concept of individual liberties doesn't seem extreme to me, but rather what I grew up thinking to be the norm. Yet ironically my viewpoint probably comes from tribal values. I grew up in an environment where we had a moral code of self responsibility and discipline and an awareness of the consequences of actions both for ourselves and others. So individual liberty and self responsibility came hand in hand. So if you got in trouble with the state then the chances were it was because your actions derserved those consequences. I grew up with very traditional British values including chivalrous behaviour.

The concept in the UK was that they rule by the consent of the governed, although this was changing by the late 90s and was one of the things that prompted us to leave. It's seems to have only further degraded since we left and Australia was already further along the path towards rule by violence.

I don't know if I'm making any sense, but for me balance comes from a base of personal liberty and responsibility and understanding where that begins to encroach on others. If someone's beliefs come from their tribal environment you may not understand them but as long as they don't harm you then you shouldn't impose your own beliefs on them. I'm seeing a lot of extremes (on both ends of the spectrum, but more aggressively from the left end) and with them being the loudest it feels like there aren't many taking the middle ground. So, yes, you come across as balanced, but maybe only because we have more shared beliefs than not. 😆