"Women's rights include the right not to get knocked up unless they want to be a Mommy...
Women's rights does not need to specify cutting out living parts of her body unless they are causing great physical harm..."
I don't agree with abortion, have talked people out of it before because I couldn't look at someone in the same light if I knew they made the decision. But, it's not my decision and if it were illegal all you would do is create a black market abortion industry, and that's worse than the current system.
"Gays already have the same rights as everybody else, they want special rights just for gays, that is ridiculous."
False, they cannot join together in matrimony, they cannot be secure in their job because they can be fired for being different, those are rights that you have that are not special, they are the same rights every other citizen has at birth.
"In less than 50 years I will be old enough to qualify for Social Security benefits... I do not expect to ever get a dollar back which I have paid in, if I do great, but I am saving some money for my sunset years, I do not need hundreds of millionair polititions to do it for me. How do you suppose people ever survived before these social programs started ?"
This is another contradiction from you, you claim that the government should not be taking money from you to help people, yet you don't care if they take your social security funds and never give it back????
"Shooting people is illegal on several levels already, there are more laws on the books than can be enforced already. People who kill people will use whatever they can get their hands on, taking away my rights to have firearms is not even addressing the issue of violent crime. "
America still has more murder by guns than any other country, I have been shot at by hunters with all of hunter safety orange and then some. When I took the hunter's safety course, it was a total joke. I don't think that we should be taking guns away, but we are lax on educating people the proper techniques and I don't see any reason why you should need a 50 cal submachine gun to "hunt" with.
"When Osama got out of Afghanistan the whole bombing/shooting thing didn't make as much sense, or do you think we should just drop bombs everywhere he ever was ?"
When we had Osama in our sights, our admin decided to sub out the capture to local militia, that was stupid. But, our admin needs the perpetual war to continue the campaign of fear so they can tap your phones and take away other inalienable rights. Goodbye free world, hello totalitarianism.
Again, I understand that you cannot fathom some people are not able to help themselves. People that are born with crippling infirmities are aquire them later in life through accidents or genetics represent a portion of those. I know that if you do understand that, then you then support the belief that they should just die of without help from anyone because they are sub-standard. I think that some people here could believe that you are sub-standard for not having enough compassion or sense to recognize that as a person of priviledge, the burden falls on you to help those less fortunate.
This statement:
"Republican teachings seem to mean that you should love yourself first, and let everyone else worry about themselves."
perfectly epitomizes and eloquently articulates how I view the repititive and cyclic posts that you make, so until you can understand that all people deserve to afford a certain standard of living, this will be how I view your stance as a person without any fraction of humanitarianism.
So do you believe that we should go to Iraq to "liberate them and save them from Saddam" because they can't do it themselves, while on the other hand, not help those who cannot help themselves inside of our own borders??
If an ultra scan were to determine that a fetus' heart was growing outside of it's chest cavity and was only projected to have a short and painful life, would you suggest that abortion was not plausible because it wasn't hurting the mother?? What you then, after the birth of the child, force the parents to cover the entire bill while it lived in intensive care.
What about babies of drug addicts, some tht are certain to die within the first year or two?
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