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I find that there are really conflicting ideas about 'liberal' and 'conservative'...

I generally took them literally as they relate to politics. If someone was politically liberal, they favored big government, beaurocracy and regulation, and someone who was politically conservative favored less government and regulation.

I am learning that the above is a bit over simplistic, as lots of factors really play into people's beliefs. According to how some of you guys put it, I'm liberal in ways and conservative in others.

However, I think I do agree with my first post, inasmuch as sometimes it seems that liberals think people are inherently good, and if you just don't offend them, they'll behave (see political correctness), and that other outside factors are greatly or even totally to blame for some people's poor behavior.

Being pretty conservative, I do have enough of an open mind to also understand that my previous statement is not a hard and fast dogma of liberalism.

I really believe that people's beliefs and values are too granular to really honestly lump as 'liberal' or 'conservative'. I think we all just lean one way or another, to varying degrees.