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jawnbcAbortion: If you’re against it, don’t have one. But until every Xtian right-to-lifer adopts at least one brown-skinned or disabled (physically or developmentally) child, they can all shut da fook up. But I’m also glad we’ve moved beyond the simplistic rhetoric of the 70s: truth be told, for a lot of women getting an abortion is very traumatic.
Death Penalty: Totally against it. But I’m also against high security prisons with free weights, conjugal quarters, visiting hours etc. Rather than killing the heinous, punish them--no outside contact, they can read and learn as much as they want. Why prisons allow dangerous, violent felons to become bigger and stronger (or stay that way) totally baffles me. I like to think of myself as “a law and order” social democrat.
Prostitution: Legalize, regulate, license, designate strolls for street workers (in Canada work-at-home sex work, as a sole proprietor, is legal). But the age of consent for sex work should be 18 (it’s 14 in Canada, so as to not criminalize healthy sexual exploration between peers--which I also heartily support).
Alcohol: Has fucked up many lives, including mine for a time. But most use it reasonably and I see no point it criminalizing it again.
Marijuana: See alcohol
Other drugs: See alcohol and marijuana. If we got the criminal element of distribution, and prices and dosages were regulated, society would save a lot of time and $$ from a bogus “war on drugs.”
Gay Same-sex marriage: Currently same-sex engaged, so count me as a yes.
Illegal immigrants: I support a strong, transparent and fair refugee system. I support family class and skilled migrant immigration, though the notion of skill needs to be broader and more fluid. I do not support the contention that someone who find their home country’s entrepreneurial opportunities limited is a refugee. Economic refugee is short for queue jumping. Canada becoming swamped with everyone won’t make the world a better place--it’ll just ruin Canada, to no one’s benefit.
Smoking: Tobacco, the great scam. Start using today and you’re a couple of fries short of a happy meal. Including “it’s cultural.” Having a brain is cultural too.
Drunk Impaired (including drugs) driving: Below .8 lose a license for 2 years. More than that, lose it for life. Injure someone? Jail. Kill someone? Jail for murder.
Cloning: In principle I’m fine with it. Pragmatism tells me we need to move judiciously and with great scrutiny.
Racism: What is this, the 60s? Or Alabama?
Premarital sex: What is this, the 70s? Or Alabama?
Religion: Isn’t evil, but the faith and its institutions are different things. Persons of faith do a lot of society’s shite work, and sometimes don’t even proselytize while they do it. But “I believe in Gawd so I don’t have to use my own brain” people are tiresome. Or dangerous.
Bush: not my problem. And the whinging about him from Americans gets tiresome too--get off your asses and organize to get someone else elected. Cherished democracy my culo.
Downloading music: Legal in Canada dood. Neener neener.
The legal drinking age: 18 or 19 in public; at home a matter of family choice/culture.
Porn: Mostly boring, but it was kinda hawt the other night. But sadly gay porn seems to have adopted the str8 70s porn plan: drugged out models being exploited. Hence my preference for the early Gage and Falcon stuff.
Suicide: Too complicated and formidable a subject to treat cursorily. So I won’t
Death Penalty: Totally against it. But I’m also against high security prisons with free weights, conjugal quarters, visiting hours etc. Rather than killing the heinous, punish them--no outside contact, they can read and learn as much as they want. Why prisons allow dangerous, violent felons to become bigger and stronger (or stay that way) totally baffles me. I like to think of myself as “a law and order” social democrat.
Prostitution: Legalize, regulate, license, designate strolls for street workers (in Canada work-at-home sex work, as a sole proprietor, is legal). But the age of consent for sex work should be 18 (it’s 14 in Canada, so as to not criminalize healthy sexual exploration between peers--which I also heartily support).
Alcohol: Has fucked up many lives, including mine for a time. But most use it reasonably and I see no point it criminalizing it again.
Marijuana: See alcohol
Other drugs: See alcohol and marijuana. If we got the criminal element of distribution, and prices and dosages were regulated, society would save a lot of time and $$ from a bogus “war on drugs.”
Illegal immigrants: I support a strong, transparent and fair refugee system. I support family class and skilled migrant immigration, though the notion of skill needs to be broader and more fluid. I do not support the contention that someone who find their home country’s entrepreneurial opportunities limited is a refugee. Economic refugee is short for queue jumping. Canada becoming swamped with everyone won’t make the world a better place--it’ll just ruin Canada, to no one’s benefit.
Smoking: Tobacco, the great scam. Start using today and you’re a couple of fries short of a happy meal. Including “it’s cultural.” Having a brain is cultural too.
Cloning: In principle I’m fine with it. Pragmatism tells me we need to move judiciously and with great scrutiny.
Racism: What is this, the 60s? Or Alabama?
Premarital sex: What is this, the 70s? Or Alabama?
Religion: Isn’t evil, but the faith and its institutions are different things. Persons of faith do a lot of society’s shite work, and sometimes don’t even proselytize while they do it. But “I believe in Gawd so I don’t have to use my own brain” people are tiresome. Or dangerous.
Bush: not my problem. And the whinging about him from Americans gets tiresome too--get off your asses and organize to get someone else elected. Cherished democracy my culo.
Downloading music: Legal in Canada dood. Neener neener.
The legal drinking age: 18 or 19 in public; at home a matter of family choice/culture.
Porn: Mostly boring, but it was kinda hawt the other night. But sadly gay porn seems to have adopted the str8 70s porn plan: drugged out models being exploited. Hence my preference for the early Gage and Falcon stuff.
Suicide: Too complicated and formidable a subject to treat cursorily. So I won’t
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Date: 2004-04-28 06:05 am (UTC)You misspelled "The USA," dear. It's still a pretty big issue down here, though it's gone subtler and sneakier in a lot of ways. See "Death Penalty" and violent felons with free weights ... a fair number of people in the US's jails are not the heinous. :( But you know this.
Re: It's the new conservatism
Date: 2004-04-30 09:51 pm (UTC)Only the phreaky phreaky admit to being racist. Or the totally stoopid.