I’m gonna go with *no *on that one. What with being dead and all.
I think I should be allowed to duct-tape the mouths of wailing babies, screaming toddlers, and persistent salesmen. I should be allowed to piss all over dog owners who allow their dogs to piss against my motorcycle cover. People who complain about television programs should have their televisions taken away. Women with good legs should wear short skirts and garters.
Yeah I guess ‘‘mandatory’’ doesn’t make any sense. My point is that people should be paid a living salary and not required to work more than 30 hours a week for it. Or something.
I’m not really a very extreme person.
Babby: the other other white meat. 
There is no meaning to life. There is no secret of life. There is no reason for life.
I generally feel that all consensual behavior (drugs, sex, marital, etc) should be legalized.
I think all age related laws should be replaced with something more practical.
I think schools should be more workshop/lab and self study oriented.
Universal health care.
GNP replaced by a well being quotient of some sort.
Public only funded campaigning.
IRV or some other alternate voting method.
Legislation based on science.
The main one I can think of is that aid to the poorest parts of the world should be tied to strict family planning.
Also consider male circumcision to be a bizarre barbaric practice akin to sexual mutilation.
Sometimes I think that people on the planet earth-- are like fleas on the back of a dog.
I kind of think the whole police system should be replaced with something less adversarial. Protect and serve should mean something. They should be more like community aides.
All fines should be replaced with community service. All financial benefits to police/courts (seizures, tickets) should be banned.
Most intelligent life form/Virus
No, but I believe a fetus using a woman’s body without her permission makes her a slave.
I believe that forcing a woman to surrender a child for adoption is much much crueler than a woman choosing to have an abortion.
Yes! Yes! I also think we should be able to rub animal feces (or do something worse) to people who let their animals mess on the sidewalk and leave it.
I think people should post sincerely held beliefs in this thread, rather than use it as an opportunity to vent mundane annoyances in an exaggerated way.
(But I don’t think those who insist on such venting should be subject to any harsh punishment…)
I hold pretty liberal views (in the US sense) wrt criminal sentencing, but for some reason false accusations are something i consider particularly despicable and not punished harshly enough.
In my view the penalty for false accusation should equal the penalty for the crime accused of.
My most extreme opinion (and I have quite a few) is that all teenage girls, on reaching the age of 15, should be offered, by the State, a sum of £500.00 (convert to your own currency) in return for being irreversibly sterilised.
The rationale behind this should be blindingly apparent …
I think I saw this happening in South Korea: decades ago citizens feared Police. They were abusive of their power and taking bribery was a common thing, but the times I visited in the last decade, citizens were yelling at Police for stopping them to check their identification etc (at the time there was a big hunt for a deserted soldier who’s killed a person that went on for months) and cops took the abuse of getting yelled at for delaying folks with the road block with apologetic smiles. They bowed and apologized for the inconvenience they were causing, which surprised me and asked people I was with whether that’s cool to complain and yell at them (one of the person in our car was a bit drunk and out of hand complaining to them loudly). It’s entirely different now. LEOs are friendly and are there to literally serve and protect yet effective enough that any sane person don’t even think of driving drunk, for example.
Another thing is decades ago, you couldn’t get a thing done, such as getting civil servants/government offices to do anything such as getting any paper work in South Korea without giving them some kind of bribery was simply impossible, as well as common place of rampant shady business practices; you couldn’t trust service or products you were getting.
Now, after modeling “their exaggerated idea/ideal” of American style standing behind products and providing excellent after services and as well as realizing the necessity of competing with better service for customers, most businesses and after services are impeccable and trustworthy if not going way beyond required services. I was simply impressed… as I have to wonder every time I bring my car in for service or call for home repair services here in US; it is a shot in the dark…
I would like that very much.
I think people are far too overprotective of children in two ways:
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[li]Believe it or not, your young child does not need constant attention and interaction. In agrarian societies, the children are left pretty much to their own devices (or more likely, put to work) while their parents work in the fields. You do not need to constantly schlep around with a massive bag filled with toys, snacks, juice, and books. Diapers will get you through the day until you get home. The kids will turn out just fine, and your little angel is no different.[/li]
Furthermore, not everything needs to be completely safe. My childhood playgrounds were made of iron bars, chains, splintery wood, and hard dirt or gravel ground. We all survived.
[li]I think our culture is way too skittish about teenagers and sexuality. Ephebophilia, as it’s called, is not “sick” or “perverted.” It is also not the same thing as pedophilia. It may not be your or my cup of tea, but as long as no one is getting hurt and everything is consensual, it’s no more sick or perverted than homosexuality, in my opinion.[/li][/ol]
Knowing something that will happen after you are dead to the consequences is not an infringement on you while you’re alive. And if they want to mess up their organs so they can’t be donated, I don’t care, its their body (while they’re alive)