I dont really align myself with any sort of political ideology, so the fact that I am a left leaning guy libertarian tendencies means nothing to me. I generally go about things with a common sense approach.
For example, I would rather see a child adopted by a loving and stable homosexual couple than have to live through the horrors of the foster care system. I dont see how marijuana is any different than alcohol, people use them for the EXACT same reasons. I want to know what the difference between the two substances really is in the eyes of the government, especially taking into account alcohol has never been considered medicinal ever unless you count as an anesthetic or an antibacterial agent as marijuana has been and alcohol is responsible for thousands of deaths every year where marijuana has been responsible for... well lets go out on a limb (while taking a page out of Bill Hicks's book) and say its a negligible amount.
So yeah, I guess I see how my feelings on other things (those were just two simple examples) fit into that ideology, but the fact of the matter is I operate on a 'HEY! What is going to make the lives of people everywhere better than worse?' basis. As far as school attendence and seatbelts and shit are concerned, however, if you don't want to comply thats your fucking problem man, I'm not cool with humankind being above natural selection as we currently are kinda teetering on the edge of as it is. Granted I'm not saying that human evolution is slowing or stagnating, actually the research shows human evolution increasing in rate (duh higher population -> more mutations -> faster evolution. a child could figure this out). But the things that we are going to great lengths to make sure the weak, the stupid and the ill survive, when they really shouldn't just infuriate me. So I guess that I am kind of a ruthless bastard, but hey, if you aren't going to help yourself, why should I help you?
yeah basically I have lots of thoughts running around in my head but it seems like I dont fall too far off the compass from everyone else so I guess its all good in the end anyway. I dont really think that theres going to be any major social/political change in this country any time soon so getting all fired up about shit is pretty much pointless.
Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 02:32:31 am by Wash Cycle