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Everyone makes their own introduction thread? While I, personally, certainly deserve such... it seems strange.
I value life and liberty, in that order (no absolutes, of course). I'm ecocentric. Vegan (~10 years). AGW skeptic. My pros: life, gay rights, legalization and the free market. I'm anti-death penalty because it sets a poor example for how to deal with problems, not because I weep for horrible criminals.
I support environmental regulations of the incentive sort (perhaps including cap-and-trade), but dislike government involvement in welfare and education; I guess we all have exceptions to any 'small-government' views.
In foreign policy, I'm a hawk; I believe we are morally and ethically obligated to liberate the victims of tyranny. I believe in the Democratic Peace Theory and that we will not have world peace until we have world democracy - in fact, I refuse to have world peace until then.
89 Private University
90-94 3/505th PIR 82nd Abn (joined during war, no combat because it was over before my training was)
98 BA Environmental Studies
03 MSc International Environmental Science, European University
04-6 Completed classes for PhD, Interdisciplinary Ecology (tropical mountain developing world low-input agriculture specializing in gender)
07-9 Screwed off
'10 Dissertation Proposal accepted, Quals passed, buying ticket to Africa for 1 year of dissertation research. I'm out of here in about a month.
Random stuff... married twice (I take the blame for the first divorce), I've done research in rural villages for months at a time twice, I've been to South America and lived in and travelled Europe. I'm macho straight but have no animosity towards gays; make a joke about me being gay and you will not find someone who cares (unless it is funny, then much obliged). I don't like religion, but I believe in a collective sub-concious of all entities (to include non-animates, such as mountains and lakes - which I believe bear influence [soul]). I don't believe in anything supernatural, only what I can observe or theorize and I know landscapes can influence people. I ascribe to Deep Ecology, minus the sexism and supernatural stuff in it. I'm self-aware (actualizing and realizing even) and find my values, beliefs and morals to be consistent. 6'1, 180lbs, brown blue and strong body. 39 years old.
I can't wait to get back in the bush, but I'd like to debate in the meantime.
I value life and liberty, in that order (no absolutes, of course). I'm ecocentric. Vegan (~10 years). AGW skeptic. My pros: life, gay rights, legalization and the free market. I'm anti-death penalty because it sets a poor example for how to deal with problems, not because I weep for horrible criminals.
I support environmental regulations of the incentive sort (perhaps including cap-and-trade), but dislike government involvement in welfare and education; I guess we all have exceptions to any 'small-government' views.
In foreign policy, I'm a hawk; I believe we are morally and ethically obligated to liberate the victims of tyranny. I believe in the Democratic Peace Theory and that we will not have world peace until we have world democracy - in fact, I refuse to have world peace until then.
89 Private University
90-94 3/505th PIR 82nd Abn (joined during war, no combat because it was over before my training was)
98 BA Environmental Studies
03 MSc International Environmental Science, European University
04-6 Completed classes for PhD, Interdisciplinary Ecology (tropical mountain developing world low-input agriculture specializing in gender)
07-9 Screwed off
'10 Dissertation Proposal accepted, Quals passed, buying ticket to Africa for 1 year of dissertation research. I'm out of here in about a month.
Random stuff... married twice (I take the blame for the first divorce), I've done research in rural villages for months at a time twice, I've been to South America and lived in and travelled Europe. I'm macho straight but have no animosity towards gays; make a joke about me being gay and you will not find someone who cares (unless it is funny, then much obliged). I don't like religion, but I believe in a collective sub-concious of all entities (to include non-animates, such as mountains and lakes - which I believe bear influence [soul]). I don't believe in anything supernatural, only what I can observe or theorize and I know landscapes can influence people. I ascribe to Deep Ecology, minus the sexism and supernatural stuff in it. I'm self-aware (actualizing and realizing even) and find my values, beliefs and morals to be consistent. 6'1, 180lbs, brown blue and strong body. 39 years old.
I can't wait to get back in the bush, but I'd like to debate in the meantime.
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