This just popped into my head mainly because when I think about this my mind just darts off in multiple directions at the same time.
Think about low income families. Think about the opportunity to shop in thrift stores and how that helps people keep it going. Clothing, household goods, kitchen stuff, toys for kids and all.
Then research Goodwill and it's CEO. And, make yourself sick and then ask yourself who really gives a damn about low income families.
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Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
There are 107,918 foster children eligible for and waiting to be adopted. In 2014, 50,644 foster kids were adopted — a number that has stayed roughly consistent for the past five years. The average age of a waiting child is 7.7 years old and 29% of them will spend at least three years in foster care.
Last year, Iowa passed a law that bans abortions after 20 weeks. That law is now in effect there. This new law that just got passed is very likely Unconstitutional, and I don’t see the point in passing it since that State already has a law that is in effect that bans abortions after 20 weeks.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
Hrm... What are my positions on life and death as a matter of public policy... I find they shift around a bit, but I'm cool with sharing:
Pre-conception
Pragmatically speaking I think vasectomies should be free. Same with tube tying. Birf control and condoms should be free. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure since there are so many manho's and thots that don't think very well.
Fascist me thinks everyone ought to be on bc and you need a license to operate a car or heavy machinery raise a kid. Basically you have to show a base line iq and economic stability to make children.
Post-conception
This one is tricky. I think I'm against 3rd trimester borts. I don't know what to think about premies because it's super expensive to get them viable and they usually have long-term life problems that cause them suffering. I also think if your kid is going to have massive issues and you can't pay for them they should go the way of the Spartans.
Admittedly abortion makes me feel queazy, but so does the dizzying cost of unwanted, incapacitated, and undervalued kids. Personally I think death or non-existence is more humane than consigning them to suffering. It's hard enough being healthy in this world; I can't imagine the suffering they experience if they've been dealt a raw hand.
Suicide
It should be legal, humane, and comfortable. There should be clinics or spas where people can go, in comfort, and get their affairs in order, talk to a counselor, get medical treatment if they wish (just to address any chemical imbalances that might give them a different perspective on life), and have their remains disposed of respectfully so their family doesn't have to come home and see dad's brains splattered all over the wall. People who chose to end their lives could do so in comfort, with or without friends and family, enjoy a nice meal, and then pass on with dignity in tact.
Death Penalty
Not a fan. However, since prison in the US is punitive and not rehabilitive it seems cruel to consign a person to an incarcerated life. I'd afford prisoners who are lifers the option of suicide as described above.
War
I'd rather double our budget for the State Department and slash the DoD budget by 3/4. War is a terrible, terrible thing. We were on a thing, the endless things we were doing in Iraq, to go get a guy because he was on the wrong side for a bit. Our team's door charges blew off his 4-year-old's face*. She survived somehow, we flew her to expensive hospitals to put her face back on, and she's since made a full recovery albeit “F” ed up for the rest of her life. Thousands upon thousands of stories like that have and are being created evry year we're at war.
* note: this was my unit, but I wasn't on the op since I wasn't a door kicker
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The questions that exist regarding life and death and our responsibility to govern both are tricky and nuanced. I can see why some people are Jainists and others are nihilists. I certainly don't believe religionists have a sane nor compassionate approach to life, and the same might be said of Leftists, although I believe the Left at least approximates my sense of morality better than the Right does.
- Doc
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: Fascist me thinks evryone ought to be on bc and you need a license to operate a car or heavy machinery raise a kid. Basically you have to show a base line iq and economic stability to make children.
Take child/human development classes.
"You know these kids don't come with an owner's manual!"
Yes they do. You're raising a human being for at least 18 years, take a class for god sakes.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Markk wrote: What are more important, the feelings of a person, or the life of a person? You don't have to answer. Your post in my opinion shows the sides of both positions very clearly.
Both positions? My comments were intended to highlight the inconsistencies in the typical conservative position and how the shifting position makes no rational sense.
Why are you giving me a choice between the feelings vs the life of a person? Are you implying that both can't be equally important?
yes...exactly...right or wrong to me and many more the life of a child is much more important than feelings.
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
