Yippies were very counter-culture, standing up for everything that went against the status quo. Yippies advocated free love, free living, free health care, and generally free anything that they considered good. They tended to stand behind organizations such as the Weathermen and the Black Panthers, not fearing to advocate violent protest. Steal This Book, a perfect example of Yippie literature, includes ways to get out of the Army, ways to shoplift, a recipe for LACE, and (now outdated) locations of free clinics. They were, in their strange way, idealists.