Fal, I understand where you are coming from looking back at my statements, I'm not fully articulating what I am trying to say. Let me try to better explain by giving you my situation. I'm someone who beleives strongly in political activism, and that was how I got into the "punk" scene. If i really wanted to be accepted I would have got a bunch of peircing and dyed my hair, but that just isn't me. I'm a big guy with a full beard and long hair, yet I wear mostly collared shirts and khakis, because that is the style I like. I'm a vegetarian, but I think PETA is one of the most moronic organizations ever. I'm a hardcore liberal, but I think that people on the far left are wrong on a lot of issues. I take pride in thinking for myself, and not feeling the need to accept all aspects of one culture (the punk or emo culture) because I like other aspects of it. Doing so, in my opinion, is lazy. Instead of thinking for yourself on individual issues people blindly follow what is popular among their peirs. I don't know how I can explain it much better than that, but if you still don't get where i'm coming from I can try and rephrase it.
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