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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5823755" data-attributes="member: 54707">I don't take it personally. But I am also certain of the type of person I am. I've been in situations where my morals were tested. Dangerous, even deadly situations.I've never personally violated my own morals principles, even when it would have been much, much safer to do otherwise, situation be damned. My wife is black and when we got married it was illegal according to our state Constitution. Never bothered me at all to break that law, or any other I ever felt unjust. I have never feared any kind of opposition, and I don't need the comfort of the culture backing me up either. I don't care in either direction.That's the way I am. I've never feared the crowd or the opinion of the general public, or the culture. I am culturally amoral when it comes to my personal behavior and honor and morals. I am neither afraid of dying for a cause, nor killing for one.But no, I don't take that kinda thing personally. Let me rephrase it this way. If I had been born a very different man in the Civil War era then I might have been different. That's certainly true.If I were born then the same kind of man I am now, then it wouldn't have made any difference to me at all. Never really know of course, but if you took me and put me in a different era, the era wouldn't have made any real difference to my morals.I'm sure it would have made a difference as to my particular actions, but not to my outlook or overall behavior. I've simply never cared what other people thought if I thought them wrong.And no other person's behavior, or group of people's behavior, regardless of the situation, has ever forced me to do anything I wouldn't have done, or not done, anyway. I simply don't care much for other people's opinions if they conflict with my morals, nor do I fear other people's opinions, or the opinions of the general culture. As a little aside most of my grandparents didn't much care for interracial marriages either. Not at first anyways. Neither did my pastor or church. Or some of my friends. Or her family and friends. I told them all they could accept it or not, that was their choice. Wouldn't change my mind.In time they all became great friends and family members with my wife. My mother's mother came to adore my wife and kids. But it didn't bother me at all that they didn't like it at first, and I told them so. That's life. Sometimes the bear gets you, and sometimes you get the bear. But if you won't stick to your guns, come hell or highwater, you never get the bear.Bears don't scare me and not much else does either. But again, don't think I'm being a smartass. I didn't take it personally in any way. Just not in my nature to care much what others think. Or what my culture thinks for that matter.</blockquote>

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