how liberal/conservative are you?

Same sex marriage: Not supporting

Same sex adoption: Not supporting

Legalizing marijuana: Not supporting

Euthanasia: Supporting

Stem research: Supporting

Capital punishment: Supporting

Legalizing Prostitution: Supporting

Abortion: Depends on the case but mainly not supporting

So I'm leaning Conservative by about 4.5 to 3.5
 
Why is it when a person who believes in God states his opinion on an issue, he is "forcing his religion on people". I'm simply telling you what i believe. I think its wrong murder, even yourself.
It would be fair to say that history is full of examples of people enforcing their religious morals into criminal law. You cannot blame people to fear it will happen!


What about the personal freedom of the Baby.
Just for you to understand people who are pro pregnant's women's rights: Try not to think of a 10-cell embryo as a baby. Many people can see why a 6 months fetus should have human rights, but not why a 6-week embryo (with neither a beating heart, nor any brain activity) should have "personal freedom". That's not that hard to understand, right?
 
Same sex marriage: I don't care; let people do what they want

Same sex adoption: I find that to be a little screwy

Legalizing marijuana: Definitely

Euthanasia: Necessary

Stem research: Definitely

Capital punishment: Necessary

Legalizing Prostitution: Yes, people should do what they want with their bodies.

Abortion: Necessary
 
Your opinion on:

Same sex marriage: supporting, although civil unions we have now pretty much give the same rights, seems people get too hung up on the word marriage

Same sex adoption: supporting, a stable same sex couple has got to be much better for a child then no family at all

Legalizing marijuana: supporting, might as well its not really more dangerous than alcohol and most people dont consider marijuana use a big deal

Euthanasia: not supporting its too much of a slippery slope, people could feel pressurred into it to reduce the burden on their loved ones

Stem research: supporting

Capital punishment: not supporting

Legalizing Prostitution:supporting but its basically legal here anyway, should be more like germany though, better regulated, safer. i definetely think the elements of exploitation should be completely ilegal but if someone goes into prostition completely of their own will i dont see the legal problem

Abortion: supporting but not sure to what degree, i find it ironic that pro-life politicians in the us are often for capital punishment and usually the most warlike
 
Right so killing someone because you caught them cheating with your wife is exactly the same as premeditated murder? Motive matters.

I agree you can judge IF there was motive, but not the TYPE of motive (as i said in my post). If i planned to kill someone because i loved them, and the other because i hate them, it makes no difference. So don't put words in my mouth please.

Well, thats a horrible argument. Lets apply the same logic to Religion! Scientology is the new state religion, no other is allowed. But you're still free because you can be a Scientologist just like everyone else!
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Your not applying the same logic, we allow gay people, just not for them to get married because marriage is a religious thing and it is for a man and a woman as it says in the bible. But the fact is, we both agree that the government should not be involved in marriages, but i think its a sin and irrelevant (ill explain in next paragraph) for two gay people to get married, therefore i believe the government should not allow it.

No marriage for infertile people then, gotcha.

Your not only putting words in my mouth (again) but your saying something way out of whack. By me saying "Two gay man cant have children" you concluded that i believe infertile people cant get married? I was simply try to explain the government reason for giving tax benefits to married people, but i agree they should not give tax benefits.

Here is my point, a gay couple is in principle can't have a child, they are irrelevant. Marriage for a gay couple is unnecessary and pointless. A man and a woman couple, in principle, can have a child.

Wonderful! That's great! I appreciate your input and have taken your opinion under advisement. HOWEVER at the point you go so far as to say that you are OK with the government enforcing your opinion under penalty of law is when I say keep your invisible friend away from my personal decisions. You are free to choose to suffer needlessly, you are not free to make me do the same.

See, this is the complicated part. If you don't have a consciousness you aren't a person. Hard to have personal freedoms if you aren't actually a person, no?

So sense children are not aware of there existence until they are about 1-2 are they not people yet? Is it ok to murder them? EDIT: after think 3-4 is probably not accurate

Life begins at conception. As soon as that life begins, it is capable of become conscious and will in time gain consciousness. You are MURDERING this life, stopping it from even becoming a human (by your definition, by mine its already a human). I know a kid who's mom was told that if she did not have an abortion, then she would die when she had this baby. She said she had no right to value her life of this babies. She had the baby. The mom died and he is alive. By your definition, the mom died for a useless clump of her own body, would you tell her son that?


Finally i ask you to please stop putting words in my mouth as you did this entire post.
 
Same sex marriage: :goodjob:

Same sex adoption: :goodjob:

Legalizing marijuana: :goodjob:

Euthanasia: :goodjob:

Stem research::goodjob:

Capital punishment: :goodjob:

Legalizing Prostitution: :goodjob:

Abortion: :goodjob: (with some reservations)
 
Marriage for a gay couple is unnecessary and pointless.

I don't think you really understand what marriage is for, if you think that.

A marriage is not simply meant to be a kid factory. It's a bit more complicated than that!
 
In my leave of absense from civ fanatics i have become more liberal then any european or socialist known to mankind.
 
I think it is not civilised, but I do realise that is an arbitrary opinion.
Sometimes I could give half a turd about how civilised the punishment for those who don't are change are. If they are not going to be fixed and do horrendous acts then they might as well have their lives end brutally.

I also think it doesn't serve any purpose.
It does serve a purpose though, it shows the person the pain of the act they had commited.

I also think so far, nobody has ever been able to show me fair evidence it actually helps to lowe crime figures: prison for life has the same effect: definite removal from society.
No, it may not lower the crime rate, but it does have a purpose. No a person locked up in a cage will cost more in the long run than a person who is killed and removed.
 
Coming back to capital punishment:
I think it is not civilised, but I do realise that is an arbitrary opinion. I also think it doesn't serve any purpose. so far, nobody has ever been able to show me fair evidence it actually helps to lowe crime figures: prison for life has the same effect: definite removal from society.

If someone deserves to be removed from the society for life why should society waste its resources to support him? Capital punishment serves the same purpose as prison for life but it's much more cost efficient.
 
So its all about the money?
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Same sex marriage: Good, but kinda creepy

Same sex adoption: Good, but kinda creepy

Legalizing marijuana: Good, tax it to death though

Euthanasia: That's fine by me

Stem research: MUST, IF NOT I GO TO RUSSIA WHERE STEM CELLS RESEACH YOU!!!!

Capital punishment: kill capital punishment first, really stupid idea. "lets kill people to show that killing people is bad."

Legalizing Prostitution:Ok, but creepy, at least put it away. I don't want my cities looking bad. Also have all of them checked. "Remember men flies spread disease so keep yourse zipped up"- General Patten

Abortion: NO NO, You're killing future laborers and Comrades.
 
I agree you can judge IF there was motive, but not the TYPE of motive (as i said in my post). If i planned to kill someone because i loved them, and the other because i hate them, it makes no difference. So don't put words in my mouth please.
Once again, there's a difference. Murder is always awful, always. A person who kills because they want something is a murderer. A person who kills because the victim is black is a monster. A person willing to kill just because of who another person is, is FAR more dangerous to society and thus deserves a more severe punishment.

marriage is a religious thing
So, should Atheists be allowed to marry?
But the fact is, we both agree that the government should not be involved in marriages, but i think its a sin and irrelevant (ill explain in next paragraph) for two gay people to get married, therefore i believe the government should not allow it.
I'd take that just a single step further and say the government should have no say in it at all. If your religion opposes gay marriage don't marry them in your church. That's what religious freedom is all about. If my religion is OK with it my church should be allowed to do so.
By me saying "Two gay man cant have children" you concluded that i believe infertile people cant get married? I was simply try to explain the government reason for giving tax benefits to married people, but i agree they should not give tax benefits.
I understand, I was pointing out that "can't have children" is an invalid argument against homosexual marriage because we allow heterosexuals to marry even when they can't procreate. I expressed that poorly.
So sense children are not aware of there existence until they are about 1-2 are they not people yet? Is it ok to murder them? EDIT: after think 3-4 is probably not accurate
Exactly, which is what makes it so complicated. At what point does a human become a person? Difficult question to answer to be sure. IMO the minimum is brain waves. If you don't have brain waves you don't have squat. Without a functioning brain a body is just a collection of atoms. No more a person than the keyboard I'm typing on. There's nothing special about human life, seriously, there's 6 billion of us. Sentience is what makes us special. The ability to reason, to learn, to compose, to laugh, to dream. Without that we are just animals, and without a brain we are just bodies.
 
Since these two terms can be so easily misunderstood, misjudged and used in a wrong manner, instead of asking you of your political/religious/moral standings, id like you to fill this survey for me (if you care)

Respond with : supporting, not supporting, undecided

Your opinion on:

Same sex marriage: State's should decide

Same sex adoption: State's should decide


Legalizing marijuana: State's should decide


Euthanasia: State's should decide


Stem research: State's should decide


Capital punishment: State's should decide, Federal cases should have the option as well


Legalizing Prostitution:State's should decide


Abortion: State's should decide



If someone thinks of any other "hot topic" feel free to chip in.

Legally all these issues are issues that should be vested in the state, something both parties have forgotten. Personally I probably have some "liberal" views and "conservative" views on these issues, but legally it is for the states' to decide not the federal government. Conservatives used to stand for states' rights, but that time has long since passed.
 
Legally all these issues are issues that should be vested in the state, something both parties have forgotten. Personally I probably have some "liberal" views and "conservative" views on these issues, but legally it is for the states' to decide not the federal government. Conservatives used to stand for states' rights, but that time has long since passed.

Judging from the fact that your comapss is the exact opposite of mine, I think that even though the state decides everything the whole gay thing should not even be up for discussion.
 
Death penalty: killing a full grown individual

Abortion: killing some cells that can potentially grow into a individual


If i would be against abortion i should be against masturbation as well.
 
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