And I don’t mean things you previously had no strong opinion about.

What is a belief you used to hold that you no longer do, and what/who made you change your mind about it?

  • Tante Regenbogen@feddit.de
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    I used to be a nationalist (not a nazi though), then an ancap. Now I am a socialist and have been so for about ten years now.

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    Trigger warnings.
    I used to think they are for overly sensitive people, then life happened and now I have my own triggers and would like a trigger warning for certain topics.

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    Eating animals. I used to be the Making-fun-of-vegans, I-will-never-be-vegan type of person until I realised that 1) I don’t have to eat animals to be healthy and 2) if there is no need to do it, killing animals for taste pleasure is fucking evil.

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    Capitalism and markets
    Anticapitalist views became compelling to me from the analogy between the state’s governance and the governance of the firm. The contrast between the (officially) democratic nature of the state and the complete autocracy of private companies worried me. I was initially a market abolitionist when I become an anti-capitalist, but I found no sound explanation for how such an economy would work.

    Now I am a pro-market anti-capitalist, an unusual position on the left