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jazzfishABORTION: Shouldn't be used as birth control, but needs to be readily available. Here's why.
DEATH PENALTY: Since it fails as a deterrent and [with appeals] costs more than life-in-prison, it's a no-go.
PROSTITUTION: Legalise, regulate, tax.
ALCOHOL: Legalise, regulate, tax. [See also 'drinking age.']
DRUGS: Legalise, regulate, tax.
SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE [which I interpret as "Sex while unmarried"]: Sounds like a plan to me.
GAY MARRIAGE: Religious: up to the religion, civil: it's got just as much right to exist as the straight kind.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: They probably oughtn't be here.
SMOKING: Legalise, regulate, tax. [If anyone can explain to me how the people who want radically different legal strictures for alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana are something other than hypocrites I'm willing to listen.]
DRUNK DRIVING: You gamble with your own life, that's one thing. You drive drunk you gamble with mine, and that shit ain't right.
CLONING: Go for it.
RACISM: Along with sexism, ageism, and those other discriminatory isms, a Bad Idea. [But I still haven't been convinced to support affirmative action programs.]
RELIGION: Why is it so bloody hard to recognise that your religion ain't everybody else's?
WAR in IRAQ: Has been and continues to be mishandled in nearly every conceivable way.
BUSH: I hereby officially apologise for buying into the "No difference between the two major parties" hype four years ago. This whole administration has got to go.
DOWNLOADING MUSIC: Insert "artist compensation" anti-RIAA rant here.
LEGAL DRINKING AGE: Lowered, if not abolished altogether. There's no reason for it.
PORN: No complaints.
SUICIDE: Legalise, regulate, . . . okay, so taxing this one would be dumb.
DEATH PENALTY: Since it fails as a deterrent and [with appeals] costs more than life-in-prison, it's a no-go.
PROSTITUTION: Legalise, regulate, tax.
ALCOHOL: Legalise, regulate, tax. [See also 'drinking age.']
DRUGS: Legalise, regulate, tax.
SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE [which I interpret as "Sex while unmarried"]: Sounds like a plan to me.
GAY MARRIAGE: Religious: up to the religion, civil: it's got just as much right to exist as the straight kind.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: They probably oughtn't be here.
SMOKING: Legalise, regulate, tax. [If anyone can explain to me how the people who want radically different legal strictures for alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana are something other than hypocrites I'm willing to listen.]
DRUNK DRIVING: You gamble with your own life, that's one thing. You drive drunk you gamble with mine, and that shit ain't right.
CLONING: Go for it.
RACISM: Along with sexism, ageism, and those other discriminatory isms, a Bad Idea. [But I still haven't been convinced to support affirmative action programs.]
RELIGION: Why is it so bloody hard to recognise that your religion ain't everybody else's?
WAR in IRAQ: Has been and continues to be mishandled in nearly every conceivable way.
BUSH: I hereby officially apologise for buying into the "No difference between the two major parties" hype four years ago. This whole administration has got to go.
DOWNLOADING MUSIC: Insert "artist compensation" anti-RIAA rant here.
LEGAL DRINKING AGE: Lowered, if not abolished altogether. There's no reason for it.
PORN: No complaints.
SUICIDE: Legalise, regulate, . . . okay, so taxing this one would be dumb.
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Date: 2004-04-26 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-26 06:59 pm (UTC)Tax is absolutely optional but likely to occur whether it's desired or not. <sarcasm>To pay for all those regulations, of course.</sarcasm>
Regulate is where it gets iffy. Restricting sale to minors, yeah, I guess I'm okay with that. [Though I could see lowering the age of majority to sixteen in general.] Requiring a license to sell and stiff penalties for misrepresenting product both sound like pretty good ideas to me. Etc.
Prostitution's a weird case, and one I'm not wholly comfortable with my position on. Insert rant about the inane dichotomy between standards for sex and violence in American[1] culture here.
[1] Possibly worldwide; haven't been exposed to any other cultures, so I can't really say.