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ok...I'll try not to sidestep the issue or respond with ad hominem attacks.
1. The AIDS epidemic clearly has a complex set of medical and socio/cultural issues associated with its spread, and is country/culture-dependent. For instance in Africa it has to do with opression of women and deep seated history of denying basic rights. In the US the spread was helped (in part mind you...not the only reason) by the puritanical attitudes of public and private sector agencies (along with reckless behavior).
2. How about we try and get teachers who could do both? Or I'd settle for reading IF sex was dealt with in the home (which by and large it isn't).
3. I think they both are dangerous.
4. When a culture or society dies (which they always do), the only thing left is the art. While art certainly existed before federal funding, what is wrong with trying to support the arts and arts education?
5. There are smart people on both sides of this debate. I think both factors are at play. But given that we have a finite amount natural resources, is it wrong to try and slow the pace of consumption?
6. I believe that there is a difference between genders, but I also don't believe in "pre-determined" roles. You would be hard pressed to argue that in the past women were actively disuaded from pursing certain careers. I think that is wrong. Can you go too far in the equality thing? If it involves denying the existence of *any* difference, then I would say yes.
7. I'm not decided on capital punishment...mixed feelings. I don't like abortion but I don't think it is my right to tell a woman what she can do with her body. This isn't an easy topic, and to trivialize it and polarize it using language like "abortion on demand" just fuels the fire. Sorry...I don't have a black and white answer here.
8. I believe that both business and government have the ability to create both oppression and prosperity. The trick is finding the balance that encourages both to favor prosperity while minimizing oppression. Easy to say, difficult to do becuase in a certain sense they are mutually exclusive for ceertain parts of the population.
9. I know hunters that care deeply about nature, and think that loony activists are just that. But I know activists that have my respect for standing up for what they believe in, and their unwavering position to protect what they see as attacks on nature. I don't hunt, never will, but I don't think that I have a right to tell people that they can't. As long as we're not wiping out the species, have at it.
10. I think this one is a BS acusation, but I suppose there are people who focus on the self-esteem part and forget the rest. I could argue that being born money enables some people to have inflated self-esteem without ever having done anything for themselves.
11. The military industrial complex, maybe. The military start wars? Who has said that? It is always rich white men in political positions that make the decision to send young people off to war.
12. Both organzations have their good and bad points. I don't believe in every cause the ACLU stands up for, but I'm glad they exist. Without extremes ON EITHER END you get drift.
13. How about if rich people pay higher ATM fees? Is that a good compromise?
14. They all have their place.
15. Again, this is a gross trivialization of the issue. I don't necesarily believe in quotas or set-asides, but they are designed to correct (in part) for problems in past (and current) testing structures. This is another really difficult problem that you can only begine to understand when you delve into the complexities of social anthropology.
16. I've never met her. She seems smart.
17. Socialism can work as well as any other system...but in fact none of them can work since there is no pure system and the envinronment is too complex. At best you have a hodgepodge of "types of government". Again, this isn't black and white.
18. Ridiculous argument/statement. Next please.
19. I think that both should be legal as long as *I'm* not paying for them.
20. Nope...that was way wrong. But so is almost all campaign funding.
21. Naw...I don't really give the rw that much credit. Maybe more of an accidental conspiracy...
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