Abortion:
I’m prolife, but I do not want to see abortion outlawed because that often leads to the lost of two lives (mother+baby) instead of one. Since people aren’t going to, en mass, start exhibiting any more self-control than they do currently, I really wish they’d spend more time on researching more effective methods of birth control. Prevented pregnancies never need to be brought to term or aborted.
Guns:
I like the idea of guns with locks/finger print checks before being operational, because that’d keep the gun deaths of ignorant children down. No child should lose their life because their parent is too stupid to lock up their guns securely and separately from their ammunition.
Gay Marriage:
I’m for it. Anyone who thinks that they’ve found “the one” who’ll put up with them through thick and thin should have the right to legal recognition of their union. However, I’m not diehard on it being referred to as marriage. Call it Chubby Wubby Dubble Hubby for all I care, as long as they’re granted the same legal rights as those of us who prefer to marry the opposite sex.
Drug War:
Doesn’t work real well. Legalize marijuana to eliminate half the arrests, and concentrate on the more life-ruining drugs if you must.
War on Terror:
I’d like to think that it’s made some would-be terrorists think twice, but who knows? Let’s not attack any more countries, though, okay?
Bush:
16 Stone was great, and Razorblade Suitcase wasn’t bad either. I think they began to lose their edge with Science Of Things, and I didn’t buy Golden State.
Oh.
Eh. I don’t like him, but I really disliked the other guys, so I voted for him twice. I think he’s smarter than he sounds, and even if he isn’t I still like him better than people who talk to us like we’re all morons.
Religion:
Believing in God(s) = good. Organized religion = bad. If you’re so sure that God cares about you and that he’s real, why do you need a middle man to speak to him for you and tell you what you should believe about him?
Economy:
Remember the slump in the early 90s? My state never recovered from it fully, so I have no idea what the hell people are talking about when they say it was so good in the late 90s. The job market sucked in 1999 when I looked for my first post-college job, and it’s only slightly better now. I make a whole lot more money lately, due directly to No Child Left Behind, so I’m not complaining.
War in Iraq:
War is bad, but being under a dictatorship is worse. If it was “worth it” isn’t something we’re going to know for sure for decades; it’ll be that long before we see what happens to the now supposedly free people. I did not want this war to happen, but now that it has we damn well better stick around to finish the job and not leave the Iraqi people in the lurch like we did the Afghanistans.
War in general:
We shouldn’t stick our noses into civil wars like we’ve done over the past 70 or so years, at least not without invitation. Only go where desperately wanted - after carefully deciding which side of the conflict is in the right.
Torture as a means of interrogation during war time:
Unreliable. It wasn’t effective during the witch trials, and it’s no more so now. How can you expect the truth from someone who is increasingly desperate for a way, any way, to make pain stop?
Homeland Security:
Oh good, more government workers being paid for by our tax money. How nice.
Obesity as an epidemic:
Counter-evidence that the media is not to blame for all the woes of teenagers and young women. If we’re brained washed to believe thinness is the end all, be all, why aren’t we a thinner nation? Do the obese not watch enough TV, or just have really high self-esteem? The obesity problem just highlights the fact that we’re far too eager to give into instant gratification rather than put much time into cause and effect. I don’t think there’s a cure for weak will. (yeah, I know there are people with medical conditions who cause them to be obese, and that is sad; hopefully medical research will help them. But they only account for about 2-4 out of every 100 obese persons…)
Medical Malpractice reform:
I wouldn’t be appalled at the award amounts if the lawyers didn’t take an obscene share of them. Would making a cap on how much a lawyer can earn (a cap in terms of dollar amounts, not percentages of awards) help? It might be worth finding out, because I can’t see them going after nearly as much money if the amount of the award didn’t dictate how much they got. I do wonder too, however, if lower insurance rates for doctors would actually translate into lower medical costs for Joe Public.
National ID card:
Doesn’t bother me. Driver’s license, social security card, ID badge for work…it’d just be one more form of identification I’d need. I like the idea of making it a picture soc though, since that’d be one less waste of plastic and paper.
Medical Marijuana:
If alcohol, with all the resultant problems, is freely available to those over 21, I can’t fathom why pot isn’t given to people who could use it to ease their pain, at the very least. I wouldn’t even mind if they brought back prohibition and legalized pot, but those things are unlikely to happen.
Capital punishment:
I’m in favor of it for only for serial killers and domestic terrorists. If a person has proven themselves capable of killing several people, I think it’s safer for the rest of us that they be removed before they kill anyone - including other prisoners or guards- else. This isn’t something that should be threatened often (and it certainly isn’t any good as a deterent for would-be criminals), and should only be used sparingly to protect others from people who are likely to kill again if given the chance to.
