Were you ever 'on the other side' on a major issue?

Question

Ever do a 180 on one of the big issues...abortion, capital punishment, gay rights, etc? What made you change your mind-set?

Answer 1

I was vehemently pro-choice, until I fathered two kids. I'm STILL pro-choice, but am more vocal about safe sex, sex ed, and advocating for adoptions, etc. So maybe more of a 155% change.

I still remain big on gun control, gay rights, the right of gay fetuses to carry guns, etc.

Answer 2

Sure was. Second amendment rights, and gun control. I thought it was a reasonable idea. It sounded so logical and for a long time I supported it, and believed in it.
That is until I saw how the gun control issue is being used by politicians. Our police are pretty good at finding out who committed crimes, but it's not their job to protect us. look at all the places that have strict gun laws and the statistics. The places with the most laws have the most crime. Australia banned guns and their crime rate has gone up, and serious crimes like home invasions and robbery are WAY up. England has no guns, but the crime rate has become alarming. Their police just don't make arrests or report crimes anymore so the statistics look better than they actually are. Politics again.
Switzerland on the other hand, where just about every able bodied citizen has an assault weapon, has the lowest crime rate of all.
Every State in the U.S. that has enacted concealed carry laws has seen a reduction in crime.

Answer 3

The bearing shaft must be the throw out bearing shaft that attaches to the snatch pedal. It is going around the bell housing and has a fork on it that holds the throw out bearing. I even have heard of them breaking in the previous besides the indisputable fact that that's in many cases the fork that breaks. It happens lots with aggressive or adverse technique in moving or merely wiped out.

Answer 4

Back in high school I bought into the anti-drug propaganda put out by our gov't. Drugs were bad, drug users were evil and needed to be jailed for the good of society, and allowing drugs to be legalized would be the fall of civilization.

Then I started hearing things which contradicted the Official Line. Like how our prisons are being overcrowded with non-violent drug users, while violent thugs are set free to make room for them. Like how our most basic freedoms and civil liberties are being taken away in the name of being "tough on crime." Or how zero-tolerance drug policies at schools hurt innocent children like expelling young girls who just bring a couple Midol pills in their purse. Or how innocent people are losing their cars, houses, and life's savings to asset forfeiture (legalized theft) because their spouse or a tenant was doing drugs. Or how the War on Some Drugs was corrupting literally thousands of law-enforcement officers. Or how cancer patients who only want to relieve their suffering and restore their appetite when all other medicines fail are being demonized, physically harmed, and made to suffer excruciating pain in the name of some feel-good BS political ideology. Or how drug prohibition has raised, not lowered crime levels and greatly increased the profitability of drugs.

I once believed that drugs needed to be stopped at all costs. Then I saw those costs. Now I believe it is the Drug War that must be stopped, before we all pay too high a price.

Answer 5

Living long enough to learn tolerance. Growing enough in Christ to love people and leave the judging to him. (However I'm still 100% against capital punishment! It is institutionalized, state sanctioned MURDER!) The other issues can have so many extenuating circumstances that caused them to be.

Answer 6

When it comes to most major issues, I am usually on the "wrong side" at first,then very gradually everybody else starts changing their mind-sets and the "wrong side" becomes the "right side" to be on.
I always set my mind on getting everybody else to change theirs.

Answer 7

Yea. I'm very strongly pro-life, and a pro-capital punishment stance, I feel, has become logically inconsistent with my "if they're not an active threat, don't kill them" approach.

Answer 8

It never made my mind-set change. You just have to accept the way things are, if you can't change them.

Answer 9

This reminds me of two blondes on the opposite sides of a river. One blonde yells to the other blond, "How do you get to the other side?"

After looking up and down the river, the blonde replies "You are on the OTHER side of the river."

Answer 10

sometimes, it just happens.......you keep learning new things and keep getting a bit wiser till oneday you start realising " i`m on the wrong side"