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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
As long as they're good, I don't care how people choose to live. And I could certainly think of worse ideas to live by than those of social tolerance and responsibility and patronage of the planet.
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Well yes, this is what I'm saying... since when are these negative things? But other members are illustrating it a bit more for me, since I can see why such total open-mindedness might be less than productive. But then again, I'm one to err on the side of relativity
so maybe that makes me a borderline hippie. Anthropologists are notoriously hippie-like, anyway... going native and all.
EDIT: after Jazz's last post... No, I hear you on that one. I mean, I guess I never saw hippies as a bad thing, maybe because I thought EVERYone went through a hippie phase (at least, 40 years ago)... and it wasn't negative. So I'm just surprised at how it's been used lately, not just on TFP but elsewhere... like some kind of derogatory label. It just didn't occur to me that it was a bad thing, and it still doesn't.