I do agree with you LH. In fact, most of the "hippies" that stuck it out and are still with us are some of the kindest and considerate people I know. I also think that they are the true noncomformists and live their lives to meet their own standards, not some preconceived notion of how they should behave.

I guess it was a bandwagon thing, or maybe because I came "of age" at the tail end of the hippie movement.