A possibly controversial introduction...
Hello. I'm a teenager with a rather bumpy political past, in the sense that the evolution of my stance has taken me all over the place. I used to be ridiculously nationalistic before becoming a more benign patriotic; this patriotism stayed with me through a communist stance and then a more liberal stance, until perhaps a month ago when I renounced nationalism in all its forms as nothing more than a form of discrimination where no discrimination should exist, becoming a more internationalist liberal and distancing myself yet further from libertarianism, perhaps the one position I have never held and never will hold. I have been growing in favour for the EU for a while now and could perhaps be considered pro-EU, although more by default than any actual espousal of the organisation; I see the EU as essentially irrelevant, as there is instead a global community which is much more important than the nations or regions in that community to my mind. I am nonetheless against world government; I fear that it would be too inefficient and that, in any case, there are too many differing opinions in the world to unite us well. I view nations as little more than arbitrary divisions of land and people to make governance easier and more efficient; necessary divisions, but no real meaning to them. I am not pro-war, but I am pro-Iraq, by which I mean that the removal of Saddam from power can have only been a good thing and that a withdrawal now would leave the country in chaos. Intervention is often necessary, regrettably, and this is one case where our presence is definitely necessary in my opinion. War, then, is a regrettable thing with immeasurable cost, but sometimes it is necessary to prevent an even greater cost, or for reasons of morality.
Hello. I'm a teenager with a rather bumpy political past, in the sense that the evolution of my stance has taken me all over the place. I used to be ridiculously nationalistic before becoming a more benign patriotic; this patriotism stayed with me through a communist stance and then a more liberal stance, until perhaps a month ago when I renounced nationalism in all its forms as nothing more than a form of discrimination where no discrimination should exist, becoming a more internationalist liberal and distancing myself yet further from libertarianism, perhaps the one position I have never held and never will hold. I have been growing in favour for the EU for a while now and could perhaps be considered pro-EU, although more by default than any actual espousal of the organisation; I see the EU as essentially irrelevant, as there is instead a global community which is much more important than the nations or regions in that community to my mind. I am nonetheless against world government; I fear that it would be too inefficient and that, in any case, there are too many differing opinions in the world to unite us well. I view nations as little more than arbitrary divisions of land and people to make governance easier and more efficient; necessary divisions, but no real meaning to them. I am not pro-war, but I am pro-Iraq, by which I mean that the removal of Saddam from power can have only been a good thing and that a withdrawal now would leave the country in chaos. Intervention is often necessary, regrettably, and this is one case where our presence is definitely necessary in my opinion. War, then, is a regrettable thing with immeasurable cost, but sometimes it is necessary to prevent an even greater cost, or for reasons of morality.