Social Issues: Part 3: Some of the Big Ones.
Abortion
Now i get to weigh in on some the big social issues. The first one is abortion
i believe that abortion is a dereliction of personal responsibility. A woman has the right to choose before she engages in the reproductive act. Admittedly, she can do almost everything right and still get pregnant. The point is that you have to acknowledge there are consequences for your actions (pregnancy is a possible consequence of participating in the reproductive act).
Abortion is a cop out and unnatural act (an elective pseudo-medical procedure, not to be confused with actual healthcare). i find it to be ethically dubious at best. Abortion is not a right (a bad Supreme Court ruling does not make it so - they have no authority to create "rights). i am not sure when life begins. That is an issue better left up to the people of the states (never the courts).
So, my official stance: i dislike the barbaric and irresponsible practice (not legitimate "healthcare"), i view as morally reprehensible. However, ultimately it should be left to the voters of the states without any judicial intervention - and definitely no public funds supporting it.
Furthermore, a medical procedure absolutely necessary to save the life of the mother is not abortion. Abortion is the optional termination of a pregnancy (like for convenience) without an essential and imminent medical need. Since the so-called Morning After Pill prevents pregnancy (implantation in the uterine lining), it is not a form of abortion.
Gay Marriage
Marriage is a societal convention, not a right. Furthermore, marriage has strong ties to religion. At the state level (where societal conventions such as marriage should be decided/defined) most of the codified definitions of marriage deal with reproduction and children (reproductive basis, before the courts tried to rewrite them). In this context, marriage would have to be defined a certain way (after all, you wouldn't want siblings to reproduce).
Changing the definition of something like marriage is not easy and can open the floodgates. If gay marriage is allowed, why isn't polygamy? i would prefer that marriage had no real legal standing. So, another topic where i would say it's up to the voters of the states (never the courts).
Civil Rights
Now here is the level where i might be called racist or sexist. i believe that Civil Rights laws as they currently exist have led to problems and were not written with true equality in mind.
Programs that led to open discrimination in hiring policies, like affirmative action, should never have existed. Civil rights laws will typically lead to some form of discrimination in the name of equality. As such, if you believe in true equality (such a thing can never exist), should be repealed.
You shouldn't have laws saying a high school cannot accept a donated football field because a female team does not get something similar. A school should not even be forced to carry female "athletics". The guise of equality can lead to more discrimination than you had before.
The push for mythical equality (once again an impossibility, except under the law) is not worth pursuing. You keep the discrimination; you just change who it is directed at.
No business should be forced to serve clientele they don't want to (if blacks don't want to serve whites and vice versa, that should be ok), though it would be economically disadvantageous not to. The government has no "skin in the game". There should never be government-imposed quotas.
Yes, this started somewhat with early feminism (suffragettes and the like), then blacks (maybe the government is the one keeping you down), now the alphabet people have taken the ball and run with it - off a cliff like lemmings. Diversity is always one of the greatest weaknesses/sources of conflict.
Feminism
This is probably the wrong area for this, but here goes anyway. Feminism is a destructive movement that largely sprung on an unsuspecting world (in the modern sense) as a result of the wild 1960s (WWII helped it too).
This was largely a rejection of the traditional (and i might add evolutionary) role of the female of the species. Earlier in the country's history they were seen more as housewives and mothers (though i guess they could have been nurses, secretaries, or teachers).
Speaking from a more evolutionary perspective, this is what the females were supposed to do: gather food, have and raise children, and clean the cave. The shift in the 1960s and later has complicated matters between men and women. Does a guy hold a door for a woman, or will that be seen as a sexist gesture? The rules seemed to have changed and who knows what they are now (even on a person-to-person basis). It also led to the masculinization of women and the feminization of men.
Ostensibly, feminism was billed as being about choice, but ironically it led to the opposite. Now you have women who wish they could provide the traditional roles, but now cannot afford to. They are forced to work, partly because an influx of women in the work force made living more expensive (and now they pay others for the roles they can't provide - like childcare). i am sure that this led to the increased cost of living.
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