straightedgers and people who believe in a religion all have a sheep mentality? i highly doubt that. i would call myself straightedge. i'm not hardcore (i drink caffeine), but i don't drink liquor or do drugs. not because i follow other people. but because that's my personal choice. not to be hip or chic. if i wanted to be part of the "in" crowd, i would go out to bars and get plastered every weekend and go home with a different girl every night and do any drug i feel like doing. that's what our society tells us is cool. sXe is so not mainstream. sure, you can say there are hippocrites. but there are hippocrites in EVERYTHING. even in the people that are into drugs and such. you know there are people that don't do drugs but say they do. that would be a hippocrite in my book. i don't tell people they are a bad person for doing stuff like that. it's their choice. i do refuse if they offer though. and that is my choice. not me being a sheep. me being me. so if choosing to be myself is a sheepish thing to do...if standing up for what i believe in is following other people, i guess i do fall into your stereotype of being a sheep.

i also feel this way about my "religion". i wouldn't call it religion, but i'm sure you would. i don't force it on people. i don't do it because other people think it's cool (because, again, they don't. society says to make up your own). i do it because of my experience. say what you want, but i'm not going to change because you say it's bad or good.