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Re: Controversy
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.111.200
Date: Friday, August 11, 2000, at 18:39:16
In Reply To: Contriversy posted by Jimmy Of York on Thursday, August 10, 2000, at 22:48:30:

> Abortion
Ideally: only if there is a major birth defect.
Realistically: bad, but sometimes necessary. Better support in society for solo mothers, rape victims, and those who wish to adopt would make it necessary a lot less often. Aborting because you're too stupid or lazy to use contraception, or you got unlucky and it didn't work, is entirely immoral.

> Assisted Suicide
Yes, in extreme circumstances.

> Death Penalty
Bad, but might be necessary sometimes. If so, at least get it over with quickly and painlessly. Don't keep them sitting around on death row for 20 years thinking it over at the taxpayer's expense.
If you have it, you should also have a lot of money, effort and social services going into prevention.

> Gun Control
Yes.

> God
Yes, but don't ask me who or how.

> School Uniforms
Yes. All schools in this country have them and it seems like a good thing.

> School Security
Yes. At my school, this meant things like not having a pocket knife, mainly because they didn't want people's initials all over the desks. If you're talking about guns, nail-bombs and cocaine, why the hell is there even an argument?

> Human Genome Project
Like most advances in medical science, there'll be both good and bad results from this. (Results currently defined as "good" or "bad" are subject to change without notice during your lifetime.)

> Extra Terrestrial Life
Almost impossible that there isn't. It's a big universe.

> Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery is wonderful. Ask any burns victim. You probably meant "cosmetic surgery". Cosmetic surgery is weird and stupid, but I take no moral stance on it.

> Creation vs Evolution
Both.

> TV
Sometimes.

> The Internet
Rinkworks: good. 90% of the rest of it: either bad, pointless, stupid, or all three.

Brunnen-"spending half an hour thinking about a forum post on a weekend when you only got online for five minutes to send a work-related email: bad"G