Speaking on a matter of "sliding scale", I was in an environment of hard, set standards and expectations - nothing beyond what one can handle and nothing extreme, but life experience has relaxed my assessment on matters such as faith and sexuality, but matters of death penalty, abortion, race and the sort were always non-issues for myself and others around me. They simply made sense and there never needed to be question on them in my opinion - nothing there to debate.

In regard to economics, I have always been about those in the industry so I have a sort of unfair perspective and opinion on that. In particular because I lived in an environment that had excess and decadence, I saw it collapse and destroyed when fortune turned sickly by mismanagement and betrayal and in a time that mattered a lot in life. I was fortunate enough to have known both great wealth and near poverty, but even to this day I find myself dealing with the aftereffects of that.

If anything I have become more sympathetic and living by the philosophy of "freedom of choice, within reason".