I believe we have no chance at all of getting the illegals out of the country. So, instead, I believe we should grant them all citizenship on a trial basis, then full citizenship after the trial time. Get them onto the tax rolls and it’ll take care of our deficit. Wasting time and resources to get them out is like trying to bail a leaking boat with a teaspoon. I know they are breaking the law. But there is no option that will get them out. Turn lemons into… bad cliches.
I believe we should legalize drugs. I also believe the pharmaceutical companies will never allow the legalization of drugs because they don’t want Granny growing her own meds in her yard.
I believe we should legalize prostitution. The reasons are numerous.
I believe nobody but the woman who’s pregnant has any right to an opinion about what to do about said pregnancy. This includes whatever man dipped his wick.
I believe “kids these days” are no different than kids in past days. I think the media makes it seem like we have more problems than in the past because we now hear about EVERYTHING that happens everywhere.
I believe that most people are good. I think we have better memories for the bad because it stands out more.
I believe alcohol is poison. But I also believe that if you wish to poison yourself, that’s your right and nobody else should have anything to say about it.
I believe that anyone who has money and drives drunk should be locked up. You have money. Hire a designated driver or call a cab. Pay a sober person to get you home. There’s just no excuse.
Well, the Qu’ran seems to only instruct that both men and women should dress modestly. The implimentation of that by some societies is bastardised into a form of anti wome repression that is disgusting and deserving of hatred. But the clothing itself is not linked to repression, it is the way such clothing is sometimes enforced that is repressive. Very few Muslims are wife beaters or think such action is reasonable, even if they follow clothing ideas that make you uncomfortable.
Secondly what do you think of a society that has a much more restrictive dress code for men than for women? One where men are subject to abuse or even beatings should the refuse to follow the restrictive code? You are living in such a society.
I believe that the majority isn’t right simply by virtue of numbers.
I don’t believe in universal healthcare.
This is a big one: there is no terrorist threat to America. There never was a terrorist threat to America, and there never will be a terrorist threat to America. America is an ideal, and terrorists can only threaten physical objects like buildings and people. The ideal can only be threated if those who once tried to uphold it choose to abandon that difficult but rewarding path for the instant gratifcation of perceived security, money, etc.
I beleive that most people are submissive cowards and that a free and open society will most efficiently sort out the shepards from the sheep.
I think that, often, calling Bush and Co evil is something people do out of fashion because they don’t have the brain- or willpower to actually criticize his terrible policies.
Atheists are sometimes as dogmatic and irritating as Evangelical Christians. But not always.
There’s nothing really all that appealing to me about casual sex.
I’m religious, but I don’t think my religion is the One True Faith, because I don’t think the One True Faith exists. I think God must have wanted there to be many different religions, because different religions are right for different people. I think most religions (including mine) are basically a human response to an experience of the divine.
I think God cares much, much more about whether you behave ethically than about whether you pray to the right name using the right words, or whether and where you go to worship.
I agree 100%. I think selective memory is largely to blame for people thinking otherwise- they remember the good things from when they were younger, and forget the bad.
I go farther than this- I think it is an extremely irresponsible and deplorable thing to do to have a child if you can’t provide a decent life (however you define that) for it. People really shouldn’t be raising kids in a situation that is much poorer than what they grew up in.
I don’t think suffering makes most people better people- just less happy.
I think buying a luxury car to show off your wealth is silly.
I believe that the government should cover all tuition for bachelor’s degrees in the sciences, engineering, health sciences and teaching. Everyone else can compete for financial aid the regular way.
I believe that illegal drugs should be legal with a prescription and under a doctor’s monitoring.
I believe that, barring strong evidence to the contrary, that SUV drivers should be considered at-fault in accidents by default. The same goes for raised trucks.
I believe that raised trucks should be considered evidence of malice aforethought, and that their drivers should be charged with murder if they are faulted for accidents that result in fatalities. Not “vehicular manslaughter,” murder.
I believe that all vehicles on the road should be held to stringent emissions control requirements (I think I posted that earlier, too, but it’s a long thread and I’m too lazy to go back and look). You wouldn’t think that would be all that controversial, but apparently, from the lack of it actually happening, it is.
I believe in gay marriage, and capital punishment.*
Either by themselves would either raise eyebrows or be completely unremarkable, depending on where in the country I was. Both at the same time is slightly more unusual, though.
*Lots of capital punishment. Whooole lotta capital punishment. As in “public gibbeting and organ harvesting. And then boiling down what’s left of the corpses into synthetic gasoline and engine grease.”
That you support or oppose an action depending on the justice of the cause. ‘Wait’, you say, ‘that doesn’t sound controversial.’ You’d think so.
Try it this way then, decent people are compelled to support and pray for the victory of native Iraqis over American troops in every engagement between the two.
The supposed justice of the American cause was proved to be an invention. End of story. Like I say, does not sound controversial to me, apparently is though.
I think people have such a powerful instinct to support their own, that it overrides the notion that all people everywhere are equal and entitled to human rights.
Busses, semis, and commercial trucks have stricter licensing requirements. Any idiot with a driver’s license can climb behind the wheel of an H2 or a Ford F250, and from my experience, many idiots do. If we were to add licensing classes by, say, every thousand pounds of curb weight, I’d reconsider.
I consider a raised truck evidence of malice aforethought because it raises the point of collision on the other vehicle, often to places that were never designed to take full-on impact. I’ve been next to trucks like this that have had bumpers flush even with the headrests on my Civic; in an accident, that thing’s smashing straight through the upper passenger compartment and taking my head off. Even a Mack truck has the decency to hit where the frame can try to eat up the kinetic energy. It’s a modification that renders a truck unfit for the road, because it has exactly no on-road purpose but to kill people.
It has to use the roads to travel to and from the off-road trails, rough terrain, and farm land where it is useful.
I’d be in favor of what you said about licensing requirements, though. It makes perfect sense. Passing a driving test with a Pontiac Grand Am (the car I took mine on) should not license you to drive an F-250 or Chevy 2500 with a seven inch lift. You’re definitely right about that one.
