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Political Belief Deal-breakers

StillBallin75

StillBallin75

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Are there any political beliefs or viewpoints that you would consider deal-breakers in a potential significant other? Is there any belief that would keep you from dating someone even if he/she were insanely hot and had a great personality?
 
StillBallin75 said:
Are there any political beliefs or viewpoints that you would consider deal-breakers in a potential significant other? Is there any belief that would keep you from dating someone even if he/she were insanely hot and had a great personality?
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Uh-uh. It'd make for some very interesting cocktail-time debate.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Are there any political beliefs or viewpoints that you would consider deal-breakers in a potential significant other? Is there any belief that would keep you from dating someone even if he/she were insanely hot and had a great personality?
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Nazism. I'm sorry, baby, but if you're goose-stepping around the house and toting your hitler youth knife, we better just stick to banging. I don't think you're my type.
 
no belief can prevent me from loving the one whom i think is the love of my life unless he tries to change my own views..
 
political views are pretty far down the list of what I'm looking for in a girl. however, I'd say racism and bigotry would make me seriously reconsider. I don't want that ugliness in my life.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Are there any political beliefs or viewpoints that you would consider deal-breakers in a potential significant other? Is there any belief that would keep you from dating someone even if he/she were insanely hot and had a great personality?
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Vegetarianism.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Are there any political beliefs or viewpoints that you would consider deal-breakers in a potential significant other? Is there any belief that would keep you from dating someone even if he/she were insanely hot and had a great personality?
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Bigotry. I will not bed down with a bigot.

In fact, I think we should all stop and leave them to screw each other.
 
I don't think I would ever marry a fundamentalist of any stripe. Dogmatism is a big turn off to me as I tend to go for the independent thinkers and non conformists.
 
i dont see bigotismas a belief .it is a stupidity.. :2razz:
 
StillBallin75 said:
Are there any political beliefs or viewpoints that you would consider deal-breakers in a potential significant other? Is there any belief that would keep you from dating someone even if he/she were insanely hot and had a great personality?
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Hmmm. Good question. I don't think that the beliefs are as much of an issue as the underlying ideological attitudes and manner of responding to differences in opinion. Iow, if someone believed something was a bad idea, and I didn't agree, I could probably let it slide if they weren't an asshole about it. Otoh, someone who is an asshole, and doesn't mind expressing it, probably isn't going to attract much attention from me in the first place. ;)
 
For me there are quite a few.... Most of them have to deal with not accepting Traditional gender roles and responsibilities, liberal political beliefs, and things of that nature.

Thankfully I seem to have found a lady who that's not an issue with. At least not yet. We'll see how it goes.
 
Being in committed relationship/marriage, I'll shift it to friendships and acquaintancy. There are certain levels of militancy and radicalism I would not tolerate being around. Our house literally has a sign stating that discussing religion is not allowed. In terms of social/political topics, I've demanded, shoved and even thrown people out of our house.

Maybe ironic, but I would have almost zero patience with people who discuss politics and social issues at the level they do on this forum.
 
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why SB , if i can accept a person as he is ,i expect him to accept me as i am too ,whats the problem.
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Who you are and what you believe, while related, are two separate matters. I don't have a problem with someone who tries to change my opinion if she has a good argument. Doesn't mean she loves me any less.
 
Guns. I am armed and my children will be armed. This is non-negotiable. I'd have a hard time with someone pro-life, but it's not an issue if I'm serious enough about them that I'm willing to have children with them. Anti-pagan bigotry is obviously a dealbreaker. Most other forms of bigotry are tolerable if she shows respect for my family-- we're not liberal enough to be a part of the Rainbow Coalition, but there are enough of us that wouldn't be welcome at a Klan rally (including myself) that any views of that nature better be pretty subdued.

Beyond that, I'm pretty flexible. There are a whole lot of things I consider irrational or downright stupid that I'm willing to overlook as eccentricities in someone worthy of my affections.
 
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StillBallin75 said:
Who you are and what you believe, while related, are two separate matters. I don't have a problem with someone who tries to change my opinion if she has a good argument. Doesn't mean she loves me any less.
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what if they have no good argument?

i used to have a militant atheist botfriend and always tried to talk me into being atheist .he thought all teh believers were too stupid to understand teh reality..i mean such a insanity...
 
First off I tend to use my head rather than my groin when I was dating. As soon as I found out she held extreme views that were opposite of my core values or beliefs so long good bye . I would not care how hot she was. I actuallly did meet girls in college like that and had no problem walking away. I also met girls who held opposite opinions (not extreme) to mine but either we agreed to disagree or we just did not talk about them. That usually ended up being a short time deal. Then there were girls who had no view one way or the other.
 
Medusa said:
what if they have no good argument?

i used to have a militant atheist botfriend and always tried to talk me into being atheist .he thought all teh believers were too stupid to understand teh reality..i mean such a insanity...
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As far as I'm concerned, bigotry against all faiths is bigotry against every faith. Disrespect my faith, or disrespect my family for their faith, and you're single.
 
Medusa said:
what if they have no good argument?

i used to have a militant atheist botfriend and always tried to talk me into being atheist .he thought all teh believers were too stupid to understand teh reality..i mean such a insanity...
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Right, but disrespecting your faith isn't the same as trying to change your opinion on a singular issue. I was referring more to the latter.
 
Medusa said:
why SB , if i can accept a person as he is ,i expect him to accept me as i am too ,whats the problem.
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People change, that there's a fact. But do they change together.
 
It would seem that religious values SHOULD be a deal breaker IF the conflict involves negative beliefs about the other. For example, if one spouse believes the other is going to hell. My wife has warned women a couple times to be careful of going on with a relationship with a Muslim man who comes from a very traditional restrictive Muslim family - for which the man is hiding that relationship from his family. Unless some day she wants to find she has married a man insisting that she start wearing a Burka, she should be leary of such a man given his not letting his family know he is dating a woman not of their ways.
 
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