Tropers/HaseoNatsume tends to be, at times, to the chagrin of others...to save a huge long MotiveRant and summary of viewpoints, let's just say that he/I tends to believe that because his left wing utopia is impossible, the only hope for humanity is Instrumentality. Of course, this doesn't go over well with most people.

Tropers/DesertDragon was a male version for most of his childhood, then he became an adult and dated an even bigger Soapbox Sadie and realized just how annoying it is. Nowadays he still has causes he believes in, but picks his battles more carefully (and doesn't always jump on the left-wing bandwagon), rather than getting worked up about every little thing.

This troper's sister. Oh so much! Especially when she finds a new cause.

This Tropers Mother on spirituality and alternative medicine, his brother on vegetarianism, socialism, anti-capitalism, and atheism his father on conservatism, traditional western medicine, and republicans. That's right, they are all out to get each other, and it doesn't help any that I am usually too timid to disagree.

This Troper and his friends took advantage of Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park to engage in an intentionally irrational rant about the Space Pixies taking over the government. It was supposed to be a joke. His friends' role was to be shills in the audience, shouting agreement. ''Other people'' started agreeing with him. He ran like hell.

This troper is this. And how. You name it: veganism, animal rights, environment, women's issues, anti-capitalism, poverty, I have a soapbox for ever occasion, and make no apologies for standing on one. Even my Snarker}} sarcastic remarks can be (somewhat) hidden Aesops ("Just think of how many starving children could have been saved with the money I spent to see that movie.")

Are you me? Well...a bizarre version of me? You name it: PETA hypocresy, political correctness, global warming skepticism, gender issues, anti-socialism, criticism of social welfare, small goverment...My relatives doesn't want to talk with me by the fear of being lectured about well, almost any topic in existence.

This troper went to an entire school of these. They were convinced everything in the mainstream was evil, including Republicans, Tv, [=McDonald's=], video games, high fructose corn syrup, global warming, assembly line products, and vaccines. Needless to say, this troper got into a lot of arguments with them. They are also very sympathetic to Calvinism. One of their ideas about [=McDonald's=] is that they use ammonia to wash their equipment and don't clean it out. Another one is that they pluck chickens when they're still alive and then put them in the electric bath. The chickens somehow survive and then get another go around. They then use everything ''except'' the meat to make their chicken nuggets.

This Troper got into a fight with his relatives after we were disscussing Robin Hood. Everything was going smoothly until someone brought up the subject of him stealing the money from the King. After that, our house was a war zone. I kept saying that Robin Hood didn't need to kill the King and his family, and I still even thought he was labeled as a villian because he was stealing, and my mother kept on saying he actually was doing the right thing. Since when is killing someone doing the right thing?! Even if it is for the poor, someone with at least one single brain cell would know that killing people is illegal. Also I got in really nasty dispute with my mother about feminism, which turned out to become a giant mess. First of all, I am against it, and I believe that I am the same thing that is gender flipped, which I like to call a Masculinist. When I brought up the fact that men are also physically abused by women and when telling someone get ridiculed about it, I swear I heard my own mother 29 YEARS OLD, SAY THAT IS OKAY BECAUSE 96 PERCENT OF WOMEN ARE ABUSED BY MEN, which is nothing but bullshit, false percentages, and flat out lies. Me being only 10 thinks doubts that my mother has any common sense and lacks the abillity to understand and configure in her mind that what she was saying was the biggest DoubleStandard I had ever heard in my (currently) 11 years of life on this Earth.

About the Robin Hood example...ever heard of Black and Grey Morality or Grey and Gray Morality? There are many stories where the protagonist commits murder because of a belief called "the ends justify the means". These characters are Anti Heroes or Villain Protagonists. If done poorly, it can come across as horrible Moral Dissonance, but when done properly it can create a compelling story about motivations for good and evil, and whether it's ever okay to commit one evil action to prevent another. It hardly means anyone who can understand the main character's motivation has less than one brain cell.

And about the feminism thing, just to clarify, your way of thinking isn't the opposite of feminism.

Original troper - hopefully you'll learn that there are many kinds of feminism. I've known many feminists who would completely agree with you.

This Troper was brought up reading books like The 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, listened to Air America on long car rides, attended or even worked the camera for my mom's political meetings, preferred history books or books about public policy to novels, grew up in a very conservative town, went to a summer camp/synagogue that put a heavy emphasis on social justice and equality, and my two fondest memories of high school were when I called a classmate "comrade" for a month after she called me a Commie in history class (ironically my term paper for that class was on using free-market solutions, like microloans and foreign direct investment, to mitigate or even end child labor in developing countries), and when I gave a speech to my APUS class dresed as Emma Goldman. It's not entirely surprising that I basically live on a soapbox at this point; feminism, foreign policy, LGBT rights, immigration reform, reproductive rights, health care: you name it, I have a hippie lefto-liberal opinion about it.

*high five* Hello, girl who could be my twin!

Triplets?

This troper typically hates talking about stuff he cares for, mainly due to the fact he's shy and his opinions are too open-minded for most people. He can however easily slip into this.. ''Very easily'', especially online.