Hi Duckk and others.
Just reading RF's brilliant 3am response on "Issues due to the size of polities", considered responding to it but realised that it would change the last poster ID, and far far fewer people want to read my comments than RFC's. Thus my responding would likely lead to many missing what he has said. Is there any method to flag recent comments by the great man?
Very briefly I was going to comment on how well he clarified a number of things I've wondered about. I would have also pointed out that I (naturally) agreed with him, but then added that people are complex, and simple progressive/conservative categories pigeon hole people inaccurately (which he also alluded to).
For most things I'm in the progressive camp (gay rights, union support, secular approach etc), but when it comes to law and order or personal security don't expect me to be anything but hard line conservative.