# State some controversial beliefs that you have.

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**Created:** [October 25, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-some-controversial-beliefs-that-you-have/377886 "2006-10-25T20:13:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-some-controversial-beliefs-that-you-have/377886/205 "2006-10-26T20:21:43Z")

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I believe governments which attempt to create “equality of result” in individuals are inherently evil.

I believe homosexuality is a mental illness.

I believe gender reassignment surgery should be medically prohibited and doctors performing said surgeries should lose their license to practice medicine.

I believe abortion should be legally prohibited and punished the same as first degree murder.

I believe IQ is such a flawed measurement system people who think it should be part of any sort of government implementation scheme are inherently stupid.

I do not believe it is immoral for citizens to attempt to violently overthrow a system of government they feel is beyond redemption.

I believe there should be a property or income requirement to vote, and a prohibition on voting for anyone who is mentally ill or indigent.

I believe a system where a group of powerful elites runs government is superior to a system of universal suffrage.

I believe everyone should kill and eat an animal at some point in their life.

I believe killing other humans is a natural behavior of human beings (I believe our natural behaviors, however, can be controlled and modified to fit within society.)

I believe the wealthy are inherently more valuable to society than the poor.

I believe there is an unfortunate system in place for post-secondary education which combines persons seeking an education with instructors who are primarily not in the business of providing education.

I believe corporal punishment should be used in the criminal justice system; I believe capital punishment should not.

I believe compensation schemes should be in place to compensate persons who have spent time incarcerated for crimes they are later proven to have not committed.

I believe individual states in the United States should have greater sovereignty.

I believe Senators should be appointed by state legislatures.

I do not believe the Presidential election system should function as it does. I think individual electors should be constitutionally prohibited from running as “promised” electors, I do not believe individual candidates for President should appear on ballots, and I think the EC should select the President based on their preferences and not the public’s.

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