Controversial survey meme (swunked from rfachir

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1. Do you have the guts to answer these questions and re-post as The Controversial Survey?
No - I'm just posturing (brilliant answer stolen from rfachir)

2. Would you do meth if it was legal?
No. What little experience of intoxication I have had, I have not enjoyed.

3. Abortion: for or against it?
Against.

4. Do you think the world would fail with a female president?
What, you mean women aren't capable of careerism, mendacity, bad faith, hypocrisy, fraud or incompetence?

5. Do you believe in the death penalty?
No, except in war circumstances. And then it is not an act of justice, but of necessary defence.

6. Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
Yes. The hypocrisy of allowing people to kill themselves and ruin others with whiskey, but not with "drugs" so-called, annoys me.

7. Are you for or against premarital sex?
It is an extremely bad idea, but people will do it anyway. That however does not exempt us from pointing out that it is an extremely bad idea. It is better to be hypocritical than stupid.

8. Do you believe in God?
Yes.

9. Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
Sure. After all, the state of Indiana once mandated that the irrational number PI should be made to equal four. Folly and unreality have never been an obstacle to the fantasy of lawmakers.

10. Do you think it's wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA?
Illegal immigration is bad news. A country should be able to regulate its own borders. It also should be willing to; if people will not go to the trouble and expense, on their own heads be it.

11. A twelve year old girl has a baby, should she keep it?
Yes. Of course, there ought to be supervision, but twelve-year-old girls are surprisingly responsible. In fact, they are often more responsible than eighteen-year-old ones.

12. Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen?
Where I come from, there is no minimum drinking age. Recently there has been a lot of trouble with teen-agers and young adults getting drunk, which did not use to be the case. I have no strong feelings either way. But I think parents should be able to teach responsible drinking in the home. Mine did so with me, and I have only once got drunk in my entire life.

13. Should the war in Iraq be called off?
At first, I was in favour of it because I hated the Saddam regime. Then I changed my mind when I realized what a botch the Americans were making of managing the country. Now my view is that what you started you must finish.

14. Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree?
Yes. And helping a suicide should be a crime. It is an act of squalid, sentimental selfishness.

15. Do you believe in spanking your children?
I don't believe in forbidding it. But laws against child abuse are absolutely necessary.

16. Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?
Sure. Then I would take the million dollars, make sure of it, and THEN punch the person who offered it to me in the face. And I would use the money for a good lawyer if he wanted to take the issue further. (I rephrase the question to mean an Italian or European flag, obviously.)

17. Who do you think would make a better president: McCain or Obama?
As I repeatedly said, they both have their points, but on the matter of abortion and of foreign policy I can only support McCain.

18. Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
If they don't know my views on these matters already, I have not expressed myself clearly enough. Anyway, they are my views, and others will have theirs - and put them into writing, too.

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You see, I can see where the impulse to hang, say, a multiple murderer, a child torturer, a serial rapist, would come from. I can imagine why people would find it satisfactory and right. I have myself felt the desire for this kind of justice, especially against terrorists. But there are three reasons against it: one prudential, one of principle, and one spiritual. Prudentially, the death penalty is the one penalty that cannot be undone. And since people go wrong, it is simply inevitable - not just likely; inevitable - that sooner or later someone will get hanged for something he had not done. Now, if a man is found innocent while alive, he can at least be apologized to, and perhaps reparation paid to him; but once a man is dead, who do you apologize to - his grave? Second, of principle: the state, the nation, cannot lower itself to the level of the bandits themselves. And third, spiritual: there is too much that is already Pharisaical about the very existence of a justice system, that encourages us who have not gone through it to feel morally superior to them who have - not just luckier, but morally better; and this at the same time as the death penalty encourages us to ask for their blood. This is a mood we should never yield to. I have heard one woman say of a man condemned to death: "He was breathing the air that some decent person could have been breathing". Are you really so certain of your own moral perfection, that you can afford the risk of saying or thinking things like that? The only person to whom Jesus Christ ever promised an immediate place in Heaven was a bandit who had been condemned to the worst possible death by the Roman authorities (and who, therefore, was more than a common criminal).