How Has NSG Changed Your Views?

[Evil Grantica]

It hasn't really. If anything I've become more libertarian over the past year, but that's probably because of RL influences rather than this website.

Me too. Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, and LearnLiberty turned me. I haven't changed too much, just gotten more radical, which has taken me away from the Right.

[Liriena]

I've become way more moderate. Looking at my first post on General...

Don't even get me started on my posting history.

[Zavea]

in recent years i've felt myself become more cagey and circumspect with what i choose to believe in relativity to this place in general

i don't intend that as a universal insult, though. what i mean to say is more like i feel like i share common ground with many people here, and even if i think i've evolved, i also think they're capable of evolving, so it's difficult for me to have any contempt. this is also b/c i think this place is a useful demonstrator of diverse political beliefs as people express them naturally on the internet, and it's important to witness that if i want to understand why they think what they do

so while i don't think it's changed me (i haven't involved myself enough in this community) i certainly think it's been part of the formula

[Coffee Cakes]

NSG has turned me into a libertarian and staunch capitalist. So that deserves a cookie.

[Big Jim P]

NSG has turned me into a libertarian and staunch capitalist. So that deserves a cookie.

Indeed.

*hands CC a cookie*

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

NSG has turned me into a libertarian and staunch capitalist. So that deserves a cookie.

My views on gay parenting did change because of NSG.

[Big Jim P]

NSG has turned me into a libertarian and staunch capitalist. So that deserves a cookie.

My views on gay parenting did change because of NSG.

My views on LGBT people changed. I never had an opinion, then I met a few and liked them. Now I have a positive view of them.

Edit: at least the individuals I like.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

My views on gay parenting did change because of NSG.

My views on LGBT people changed. I never had an opinion, then I met a few and liked them. Now I have a positive view of them.

I didn't have a bad opinion of the LGBTQ community, but I didn't, once upon a time, think they should be parents. That changed because of a debate I had with Bottle. Way back when I started posting.

[Big Jim P]

My views on LGBT people changed. I never had an opinion, then I met a few and liked them. Now I have a positive view of them.

I didn't have a bad opinion of the LGBTQ community, but I didn't, once upon a time, think they should be parents. That changed because of a debate I had with Bottle. Way back when I started posting.

I never had an opinion one way or the other.

[Kelinfort]

This site basically took all the religion out of me. Besides that, not much.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I didn't have a bad opinion of the LGBTQ community, but I didn't, once upon a time, think they should be parents. That changed because of a debate I had with Bottle. Way back when I started posting.

I never had an opinion one way or the other.

I did. Now it is positive. Frankly, when you come down to it, an orphaned child just wants a home and loving parents. I don't think he/she cares if it's two men or two women or a man and a woman.

[Estado Paulista]

NSG hasn't changed my views much. Although I can say they're not the same as when I joined, but that's not thanks to NSG. NSG changed my stances on separatism and social welfare and that's it. Nonetheless, I think coexisting with people from different ideological backgrounds made me rethink a lot about my positions.

I joined the forums on September 2013 and since then, I'm less socially liberal than I used to be — but I'm still pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and pro-drug legalization. I sort of "reconverted" to Catholicism, although I still hold on firmly to my Positivist and secular values.

I think my biggest change was becoming more nationalist. Not an irredentist, xenophobic nutjob but just an average man who loves his "Mãe Gentil" and is working on improving it.

Overall, I still label myself as a "radical centrist" or "pragmatic centrist" — for the most part because there's no formal ideology that fits me and because I value pragmatism more than anything.

[Ardoki]

I used to be a type of state socialist, now I'm a council communist.

[Britcan]

Looking back I realise how much of an immature idiot I was when I joined this site. I was an extremely militant atheist, rediculously anti-EU, somewhat more economically libertarian and probably a UKIP sympathiser.

Some of the changes in my views is probably just me becoming more mature and better informed, but NSG certainly played a large part in the changes.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I've become a lot less generic leftist activist and now I just want to watch the world burn.

[Ordinary People]

NSG has turned me into a libertarian and staunch capitalist. So that deserves a cookie.

... how?

[Yumyumsuppertime]

NSG has turned me into a libertarian and staunch capitalist. So that deserves a cookie.

Due to the laws of supply and demand, the cookie will cost you five dollars.

[Dumb Ideologies]

NSG has turned me into a libertarian and staunch capitalist. So that deserves a cookie.

Due to the laws of supply and demand, the cookie will cost you five dollars.

The average weekly wage in an Ideal Free America.

[Old Tyrannia]

Interestingly, it has made me more right-wing, more royalist, more pro-religion, and more anti-capitalist as well as anti-socialist. Of course, when I first joined NationStates I was quite young and didn't possess any really strong political beliefs or a particular ideology, but I went through a few phases before I got to where I am now.

[AiliailiA]

Not very much I'm afraid. I was already in my 40's when I joined and I'd argued with lots of people about lots of things before then. So my broad political alignment hasn't changed much.

I've become aware of a wider range of sexualities (that being one of the few subject people in real life don't argue about, in my experience). Years ago when I joined I thought there were just straights, bisexuals, gays and lesbians. I respected all those, because someone else's sexuality is none of my business ... but I was probably rather insensitive to other alignments because I just wasn't aware that such sexualities existed.

I take the letter of law and the court process a lot more seriously now. I never bothered to read court judgements, precedents or even the laws themselves, until I came here and saw them cited in thread arguments I'd gotten involved in. The law is not easy reading, but I was enticed into it by the strength and consistency of arguments made by posters who do know the law. It's not that I have any pretensions of being a lawyer, it's just interesting. Reading those moral battles fought out in such a formal way has I think made me more rigorous in my own morality, and more cautious of starting arguments I can't win. So that has changed my approach to argument, if not my views.

Of course my views have changed in the x years I have been here. But apart from the two examples given above, in which I had my nose rubbed in my own ignorance, it has been my choice to drink when NSG led me to water. I really can't say that NSG changed my views in any other way. It might even have further entrenched me, because argument is not the best way to find the truth.

[Lonbonia]

It hasn't.

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

let me let you in on a secret... not that much...

because /pol/ changed me more...

[Veroxia]

NS made me from a Socialist to a Democratic-Socialist, and a bit of a nationalist as well.

[The Great Warrior Rivers]

Well, before Nationstates, I would've liked to have considered myself a pacifist. Now I'm a person who advocates war. My views on the minimum wage have also changed (ban it!). Maybe I have become more conservative?

[AiliailiA]

It hasn't.

You forgot to your post.