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I think that old people just lose their inhibitions as they get older. They decide they're tired and they only have a certain amount of time left, and they no longer give a shit what people think. They're more willing to say the things they've been thinking all along.
Plus, each successive generation has been more tolerant than the last, for a long time. They say that my generation is shaping up to be more conservative than our parents (the hippie generation,) but I'm not sure I agree. I think we're more fiscally conservative, but still more socially liberal, which is primarily where issues of tolerance fall.
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