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CartBlanche on 25 June 2018
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DarthMetalliCube said:
CartBlanche said:

So let me get this straight....So when presented with facts that contradict your perception of what is happening around you, rather than find a multiple of varying credible sources to prove these other people's so called facts right or wrong, your natural reaction is to revert back to being a teenager, at the age of 30+. Is this how you behave in the work force too? Have you managed to hold down a steady job? I'm guessing not because in your own words you don't like being told what to do. Do you run your own business then?? How's that working out? Do you also embrace empoyees who are like you and don't like being told what to do?? 

Nope. When presented with FACTS backed with sources I tend to listen to those facts. I don't just go against the grain for the sake of doing it.

It's not "being a teenager", it's being independent and using critical thinking, a lost art these days, with many being spoon fed propaganda within the MSM. I just don't blindly believe everything I'm told.

That isn't isn't what you said originally, you said you DO go against it just because you are being told what to do. Let me quote YOU again...

DarthMetalliCube said: 
Hell even my very liberal mother and sister shout at me or treat me like a criminal sometimes just for expressing some slightly rightwing, libertarian, or centrist views. When things like this happen, alarm bells go off inside me and I naturally REBEL AGAINST it. I don't like being told what to do. In fact I DESPISE it.
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Call it rebellious, Libertarian, Anarchist, whatever - it's just the way I'm wired.

Which as I pointed out is exactly what you, me and everyone does when we are teenagers. I didn't write the above YOU did, using your own words and your own thought processes. Maybe you need to realise you haven't quite grown up yet and own it. It OK to do so.

So regarding this...

DarthMetalliCube said: 
Seriously? Of course that's not how I behave in the work force.. That's like my saying  - do you attempt to discredit and belittle everyone who thinks differently in YOUR place of work?

So let me re-quote YOU again...

DarthMetalliCube said: 
I don't like being told what to do. In fact I DESPISE it.

So I took that to mean that this applies in your WHOLE life not just against your mother and sister or on internet forums. So you've now clarified that if someone in power, say like your boss, tells you what to do, or tells you to think a particular way, you will happily follow that without questioning it. While someone who has no power over you, say like your mother and sister, then you are quite rebellious and won't listen to them. Or maybe it has nothing to do with power and just if someone pays you money, that you'll go along with them?? 

I'm just trying to understand why this double standard exists? You did say you are an "anarchist" and its "just the way I'm wired", but your actions of having one behaviour for your mother and sister (whom I'm sure love you), compared to total strangers who pay you or are your boss, suggests that you aren't actually wired that way at all. Being "Wired" means there is no possibility of change. I'm not seeing consistency here. What am I missing??