I mean, what’s the worst that could happen /s

From a young age my father taught me that you can learn as much if not more from shitty people compared to good people. We haven’t spoken in years, I learned a lot from him too.

I’d agree

When I was 19 working construction during the summers between college I had one of the experiences I referenced. There was a bully on my crew who relentlessly fucked with me every single day. For context I was 6’4 215 training kickboxing and jujitsu 4 days a week. He was 5’2 probably 200 lbs alcoholic in his early 50s. So finally, one day, I snapped. I told him very calmly that I’d see him back at the shop and I was going to beat the brakes off of him. I very well could have and there is literally NOTHING he could have done to stop me physically. He got a real serious look on his face and said “tell ya what, you try that and I’ll show you how a pistol can make a big man small”. I knew from that second it wasn’t worth getting shot and realistically it would have been his only option to stop my gorilla ass from beating him into the dirt. It made me reflect a ton. Mostly about how a guy like me at that time could physically destroy an extremely large percentage of the general population. The thought there is next to nothing the individual could do to stop me. That is, unless they had a gun. Even a .22 would have turned me around running. That was one of the moments I realized it’s pretty reasonable to want a gun for protection. I never fought the guy and he never really eased up on fucking with me. I earned my money, finished my degree and haven’t seen him since. I learned a lot from him.

In high school I was anti gun (even though I grew up with them and shooting since a young age). I had a pretty wild few experiences. Along with my current living situation I’m now extremely pro gun and consider myself an enthusiast.

Nah dude I understand now my thoughts and opinions dont have to live in boxes other people decide on.

I genuinely do not care. Took awhile, lots of therapy, lots of self reflection, years of just being alive and lots of confidence building.

Exactly my point.

Thats a pretty simple explanation, thanks!

Could be pretty sick

I do think both (along with most political frameworks) are based around high levels of idealism.

Fair enough, simply put.

I think public librarians would be gone under either lol

The private property thing is massive, fair point.

Interesting, that’s kinda how I was thinking.

Thats a pretty great answer, thanks!

Sorry I didn’t think about the fact libertarian is a US politics thing or the whole left/right thing. In no way do I want this to be a discussion about US politics or political arguments. You’ll see in my post history I frequently ask questions like this.

Interesting!

I hope not, pretty sure she’s wicked young like just turned 18. Which I guess is fine but I just don’t imagine if her inbox is flooded its with similarly aged non creepy dudes.

You’re really young and it was a long distance thing, right? Breakups around then are really manageable. The way you describe feeling sounds reasonable. I’ve felt similar following breakups, even big ones. My first serious girlfriend that I broke up with was actually exciting. She and I weren’t really meshing and her friend (the one who got us together) had a thing for me. Ended up dating the friend within the same week (ah to be 15 again). That one ended way worse with cheating and all kinds of bullshit. It doesn’t real get brutal until you’re living with someone for years and then breakup.