Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Salacious but titter-free meme

Stolen from Frank.

Would you do meth if it were legalized?
Nope. I barely do caffeine.

Abortion: for or against?
This question pisses me off. OF COURSE I'm not for abortion. Nobody is.

I am for reducing the occurrence of abortion by providing people with safe, free birth control and the information that will help them use it correctly. I am for helping women who get pregnant unexpectedly to pursue the options that best suit their lifestyles and mental and physical health. I am for providing financial aid to women who get pregnant unexpectedly to enable them to keep their babies. And I am definitely for keeping the government out of my medical business.

I don't know many so-called pro-life activists who can say all of the same. Most of them want to sit on their moral high horse without actually addressing the problems that lie under our abortion statistics.

Would our country fall with a woman president?
No. How successful she would be depends on the woman, of course, and on the Congress sitting at the time, and on any number of other factors.

I think this question overestimates the importance of any given president.

Do you believe in the death penalty?
No. I understand the temptation of the death penalty, but I don't think there's any way to be sure we are performing executions justly and humanely.

Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
Yes. As long as alcohol is legal (and I'm not suggesting it shouldn't be), it is hypocritical in the extreme to prohibit just about any other substance.

Are you for or against premarital sex?
Silly question. Do I believe someone who engages in premarital sex is commiting a sin? No. Do I feel any guilt over the premarital sex I have engaged in? No. Do I think premarital sex is for everyone? No. I wouldn't marry someone I'd never slept with, but that's just me.

Do you believe in God?
No. But I will stand on a soapbox and defend your right to do so, up until the moment you want to legislate your particular theistic beliefs.

Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
Yes, of course. Love is love. I also think we don't have any authority to make it illegal.

Do you think it's wrong that so many Hispanics are moving to the USA?
Of course not. Was it wrong for my great-greats to move here? No. Do I think we have a resource problem because of the large numbers of people coming in? Of course.

Should the alcohol age be lowered to 18?
There shouldn't be an age restriction at all. I believe the age restriction creates most of the problems associated with teen drinking.

Should the war in Iraq be called off?
Yep.

Assisted suicide is illegal. Do you agree?
Do I agree that it is illegal? Not completely (see Frank's answer). Do I agree that it should be illegal? No.

Do you believe in spanking your children?
No. I don't believe in your spanking yours either.

Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?
Probably. That's a lot of money. :-) But I'd be more likely to burn one to make a statement.

You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free." — President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), "The American President"

Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
No. But I've closed comments because neither do I want to argue about any of this. If you disagree with me, you can do the meme on your own blog.