Seriously...what would you do or what would you sacrifice for what you believe strongly in?

[flvegan]

What do you believe in, and what would you sacrifice for it? What lengths would you go to for it?

No limits, no boundaries. Run amok...

[Deja Q]

1. When I find something (or someone) to believe in, I will let you know.

:)

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. I've put my life at stake

That's what it's for.

[flvegan]

13. How so?

I'd really like to hear about it.

[Fredda Weinberg]

15. I ran a program I called "kids, cops and computers cut crime"

After I read in the paper that a community policing substation downtown had been torched (I found out later it was the 3rd time) by arsonists, I started a free computer class. Sometimes I waited outside that former crack house for hours to be let in - but I would always wait and as soon as I was admitted, the kids showed up.

Eventually I was given my own key, but I never kept the door locked when I was there ... one day, a stabbing victim staggered in.

It was worth the risk. Crime went down 25% after two weeks and eventually, the police station closed and the facility was handed over to a neighborhood watch group, started by the father of one of my students. The computer classes have moved to a charter school down the block.

I value my existence as an individual, but it's not the only time I've put my life on the line for the community. When I was coming home about twenty ago, I saw a group of females about to rumble on my block's corner. I placed myself between the two combatants and snarled, "If you want to live like dogs, be prepared to die like one." I never saw the troublemakers again.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. I'd move across the country to be with my love.

Did it, in fact.

[Redstone]

9. You, too? Same for me, except I flew her here with the last $600 I had

on my credit card.

Would've beeen cheaper if I had booked her a round-trip ticket instead of one-way, but I wasn't in that mode...

Redstone

[Gormy Cuss]

11. How the hell do you think this Yankee ended up on the Left Coast?

I'd rather be home, but that would be too high a price.

[Lyric]

4. I'd sacrifice *almost* anything for the sake of equality.

The one thing I would not give up is my life--not because I'm afraid, but because my foremost responsibility is to my partner and our child. They need me. I have no right to give up my life when it rightfully belongs to them.

But short of giving up my life? Anything that's mine to give.

[Generic Brad]

5. I would sacrifice everything

Standing by our principals goes to the very core of our being. At least mine do.

[Redstone]

6. There are many things for which I'd give my life (which isn't a lot of fun anyway),

except for the fact that I have a wife and two kids.

That changes many equations.

Redstone

[Guava Jelly]

7. I would give my very life to save someone I love

Either a friend or a lover.
And I would do it without a second thought or any regret

[SPKrazy]

17. I'd Do It Too GoPsUx

no thought

I'd probably even take the chance for someone I didn't love but, one never knows for sure what will happen.

I tend toward action in a crisis and realize the fear afterwards

I'd also fight to the death I believe to preserve our freedom from Nazis who wanted to imprison me or people I know for no reason.

:hi:

[skygazer]

8. Good question and I'm not sure of the answer

It's easy to type out something noble but I don't suppose you truly know until push comes to shove. I'm sure there are people here who have put their money where their mouths are but I can't say that I've ever had to choose between a principle and something big enough to be considered a sacrifice. I've certainly stood up for my beliefs but never had to give up something significant in the course of it.

[Redstone]

10. I've run INTO a burning house. I know what you mean.

Redstone

[skygazer]

14. Where was it that I read -

Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's doing the right thing in the face of it.

I do believe that I would risk my life to save a loved one and I hope that I'd be willing to risk it for a stranger. But I've never been put in that position (and hope I never am, for that matter). I've risked jail to protest various issues but that seems a minor risk in comparison. :shrug:

[flvegan]

12. Principle.

That's the word I should have used.

Excellent answer, IMO.

[treestar]

24. That is a very good point

Most people know the odds are they will never be tested, and so it is too easy to type and in fact the louder they are about it, the more one is sure they are not sure what they would do.

It's all posturing; we won't know unless we are tested and it is a legit hope that we not be. And we are lucky the odds are low.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. I'd take a bat to anyone for my friends or family.

I'd do it to protect an animal, too.

Seriously though, I don't even like most of my family, but I'd still fucking kill for them.

[hfojvt]

18. Once I worked for DOD for a year

Quit and have not had a decent job since. Did not want to devote my life's work to the MIC. Plus, admittedly it was quite boring, and as my first full time job, it felt like I did not have a life.

I give some of my time and money, as many do, to support what I consider to be worthy causes. I have volunteered something like 2000 hours at a youth center, and something like 100 hours standing in the cold to raise money for the Salvation Army. I have rented a car twice to go protest Bush visits, and once to protest the coming war with Iraq. Not a huge sacrifice, but spending a couple hours walking on a cold day seemed to be more than most of my fellow Kansans were willing to do.

And so on. Or were you looking for more theoretical and large sacrifices. Could I do more? Should I? Okay, yes, I need to renew my subscription to The Nation.

[LeftyMom]

19. My life, my health, my freedom...

I can't ask those things of anybody else, but I would give gladly them for the right reasons. The hard thing is finding the right reasons, or saying for sure without facing the choice. For LeftyKid, without a doubt. When the thing sacrificed for is more ideological it's harder to say one would do it without actually facing that choice. It's easy to be brave in theory.

[wickerwoman]

20. I once quit a job

because they fired a gay coworker and we all knew damn well it was only because he was gay.

But I got a much better job two weeks later so it wasn't that much of a sacrifice...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. thats so wonderful to hear.

[Bum Whisperer]

21. I couldn't rightfully say...

...until put in a position that required it.

[LaurenG]

22. Lets just say

if we were invaded by militants and they were forcing people into camps or trying to make us "obey" them at the cost of freedom. I would stand right beside the rest of those (most people here) who would fight them.

I agree that until something comes up I really don't know what I'd do.

I did go to my sisters place of work after she was being sexually harassed and they wouldn't turn over her check and I let the manager (harasser) have it.

I barged into his office and let him know that I would call the cops and the newspaper if he didn't give her her check right then. He threatened to shoot me and I asked him to bring it on, which he didn't. (I was young and tough, lol):shrug:

He gave her her check and we walked out. Obviously she didn't go back to work there.

[itsmesgd]

25. If I believe in something strong enough..

I will and have put my life on the line.
I would do the same in defense of someone or something I loved.