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Which positions or agendas do you support [U.S.]?
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russ_watters said:Several of those were too vague or too specific (simplistic) to really answer, but depending on the specifics of the proposals, I might support any of the last 5.
fleem said:YES - Abortion made illegal
out of whack said:Ivan, does the [U.S.] clause in the poll question mean that the question is directed only at US citizens? Or is it directed at everyone ABOUT the US?
Math Is Hard said:I support giving maps to all the U.S. Americans who can't afford them.
Math Is Hard said:I support giving maps to all the U.S. Americans who can't afford them.
Moonbear said:Running for Miss...um...I think I need a map to remember what you'd be "Miss" of?
US Americans, as opposed to the South African Americans or the The Iraq Americans.Math Is Hard said:I support giving maps to all the U.S. Americans who can't afford them.
Mischief!Moonbear said:Running for Miss...um...I think I need a map to remember what you'd be "Miss" of?
DaveC426913 said:Huh. Making abortion illegal is more predominant than I would have expected.
DaveC426913 said:Huh. Making abortion illegal is more predominant than I would have expected.
ShawnD said:I'm more surprised about the lack of support to eliminate national debt
Ok, but at one point do you believe the human being comes into existence?GleefulNihilism said:Abortion made illegal -- Hell No, I'm not about to butcher women's rights in exchange for something that may become be a human being one day. At least Two-Thirds of Blastocysts flush away with the next period anyway, so by the logic most
Ivan Seeking said:There are also fundamental economic arguments for having a debt. I would have to look them up but I have read about this before.
Ivan Seeking said:There are also fundamental economic arguments for having a debt. I would have to look them up but I have read about this before.
I'm surprised it's more than zero.Office_Shredder said:Are we looking at the same poll?
Why would you be surprised?DaveC426913 said:I'm surprised it's more than zero.
"Do you think abortion should be legal in all cases, legal in most cases, illegal in most cases, or illegal in all cases?"
Oct '07 %
Legal in All Cases 21
Legal in Most Cases 32
Illegal in Most Cases 24
Illegal in All Cases 14
Unsure 8
In my vision of society people would have as much freedom of choice as makes sense and no more. After all, rapists would not be allowed freedom to choose their victims in your vision of society, right? Why are you against freedom of choice? In my vision, women would still have the right to choose, but not the right to choose murder any more than men would. My ancestors in Europe were at the loosing end of a political debate as to whether they were human or not. I don't want to go through that again.cristo said:Why would you make abortion illegal? To me that is nonsensical-- do people not have the freedom of choice in your vision of society?
I don't know all the ins and outs of this, but I wonder if the economic downturn at the end of the Clinton and beginning of the Bush administrations was not caused by the enormous surpluses in the previous years. Perhaps running the government at a profit is no better than running it at a loss.Ivan Seeking said:There are also fundamental economic arguments for having a debt. I would have to look them up but I have read about this before.
cristo said:Why would you make abortion illegal? To me that is nonsensical-- do people not have the freedom of choice in your vision of society?
It wasn't a lack of understanding. "Increase taxes on the rich", for example, is basically just a meaningless slogan and so unanswerable. There are proposals that I would support and proposals that I wouldn't. For example, I would not generally support the increase of only the top marginal tax bracket. I would, however, support the closing of a number of tax loopholes, such as the use of capital gains as income being taxable as income. Of course, I'd also want to include in that another exception for waiving capital gains for someone selling one house to buy another one.Ivan Seeking said:Could you specify what you didn't understand?
Hurkyl said:You know, none of that is relevant, fleem. Unless this one man, all by himself, makes up a signficant proportion of all abortinists, his testimonial doesn't tell us anything about the general state of things. And the emotional appeal emphasizes that you really don't have a rational argument.
(And, for the record, I am generally against abortions)