Rather than reacting with knee jerk derision, I took a moment to read your blog's "My Context" page, and I think I do have to conclude you're living in the righ

Rather than reacting with knee jerk derision, I took a moment to read your blog's "My Context" page, and I think I do have to conclude you're living in the right way for yourself. Someone who puts freedom from coercion first and foremost in their ethical thinking, to the extent that you do, is going to find themselves at odds with the Overton window almost anywhere they go. I'm not sure you're doing something in your own life that's much different here from what those people in the States are doing to you. You too are dropping hints and observing responses to decide whether to befriend or antagonize a given person. Hence the tone of some of the other comments - you've successfully antagonized a few people by what you've written here. I can't really tell whether you just dislike this "cultural war" you have going on (whatever that is) or whether you also have a distaste for this whole befriend/antagonize mechanism in general. In any case I'm glad you've got a group of people you can pal around with online. It's good to have friends.