After raising teens, I believe abortion should be legal until the 75th trimester.
The whole point of life is whatever the sentient individual makes of it. There is no grandiose purpose but to make it to the next nanosecond.
Her character in The Mary Tyler Moore Show was selfish and arrogant at times, I had the same impression of her as you do until I saw her in Golden Girls and then Lake Placid when I finally accepted it was just a well realised characterisation.
Euthanasia is just the reverse of IVF and should be treated as such. You can’t decree that medical intervention to begin a life is fine, and to end one, isn’t.
Toilet paper should be free.
Globally, when personal wealth exceeds $50m it should be taxed at 100%.
Smokers should be protected under the Anti Discrimination Act.
Single people and childless couples over the age of 50 should be given a tax bonus for not having procreated.
University degrees should actually mean something, and not having one shouldn’t mean anything.
The western world should learn to stop being so fucking arrogant.
Academia is overrated.
Nobody over the age of 21 should live at home.
Personally, I’d set it at 0.75 children per person, and then…
allow this. Couples who want two kids will need to get a half-credit from someone who doesn’t want any, or a couple that just wanted the one.
I’d allow a refund on the credit if your kid doesn’t make it to breeding age themselves.
This thread is depressing me and I need to stop coming back to read it. That may be an unpopular opinion in and of itself!
Self esteem is important. Take it from someone who doesn’t have any. It’s a hell of a lot harder to get along in the world without it. Our way of getting kids to develop self esteem is sometimes wrong or misguided but self esteem is important.
I believe that psychics and ghosts exist. There are plenty of frauds or mistaken beliefs out there but that doesn’t mean that some don’t exist.
I believe psychic ability is something everyone has (usually defined as intuition). Think of it like music ability. Mozart had an extreme inborn advantage in music ability. Most people have the ability to produce and create music but few have the natural talent for it like Mozart did, and even fewer hone it to the level that Mozart has achieved in his lifetime.
I don’t believe that Lutzes were lying about the Amityville haunting. It may not have been a haunting, per se, but maybe there was something happening there that the Lutzes did not understand. Just because something turns out to be not true doesn’t mean that the people involved don’t believe it to be not true.
“American Pie” is one of the worst songs ever recorded. It’s a bunch of overwrought and pseudo-clever metaphors hammered together into a 28-minute chunk of Boomer nostalgia porn. The only thing worse than Don McLean’s recording of this song is anyone else’s rendering of it.
Well, I take your point, but it leaves us in a quandary. We need to have a word that unambiguously means “the first food that one consumes during the day,” and doesn’t mean anything else.
Evidently “breakfast” is no longer a viable candidate. Got any suggestions?
The vast majority of people who see you each day will never have a meaningful interaction with you. They experience you as just your appearance, people who have tatoos and piercings have gone out of their way to make their appearance ugly and threatening. Thus people react negatively to those people.
Parents shouldn’t have to worry about paying for their children’s post-secondary education.
I hate hearing parents whine about how much it’s costing them to send their child to university or college. Your kid is a grown-up now and can pay for their own education. I knew damn well that my parents couldn’t afford a “college fund” for me and any financial help from them was not an option. I paid for college as an adult with student loans and working, and I can tell you that I worked hard for and appreciate my college diploma because I earned it myself. Your parents spent thousands of dollars raising you, they don’t owe you an education after high school.
I can’t help feeling a bit sorry for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He’s right between my kids in age, which automatically classifies him in my eyes as just a little boy. I bet he idolized his big brother and followed him right along this terrible path. I’m sure his mother would never have let this happen if she’d been around.
Now, at the same time, I don’t deny that a person of his age can be a total irredeemable shitbag.
I agree.
People should be allowed to keep midgets as pets.
To qualify for loans, the federal government requires parental support or a signed waiver through the age of 24.
Fuck Earth day.
That’s one of the things that surprised me a while ago on these boards - as someone who did not come from money, it had never occurred to me that there was an expectation that parents would pay for college for adult children, but then I saw people talking about it like they were complete failures in life if they didn’t pay for everything their kids needed for post-secondary education.
I guess federal requirements for parents to help pay for college makes things more complicated, but 18 years old plus should not expect their parents to pay for everything - a combination of part-time jobs, loans, and parental help should be the norm, not parents paying the whole shot.
As I posted on Twitter last night, saying “Save the Earth” is stupid - the earth will be fine. It’s the humans that will be wiped out, and if we manage to do that, we deserve it.
Cats are sociopathic little bastards.
The Princess Bride is overrated.
Counterpoint…humans are on a different evolutionary level now, where succeeding generations can also be influenced and benefited by societal and material contributions. If a finch can’t breed and reproduce, then its finest superior song singing, nest building, and wing flapping will never influence the future.
Even if I, as a human, never reproduce, I can arguably have a far greater impact on succeeding generations and on society with an invention, artistic work or discovery than I would with simply tossing (snerk) the genetic dice.
Wolfgang Mozart ‘failed’ evolutionarily since his lineage died out with his childless children, but I’d argue his evolutionary influence on society and the future is far more significant than his mere DNA would have been.