<p>alcohol-gonna have to say it, i want them to make the legal age the same as china
eating disorder-it's their choice if they want to do it, it's their body
drug legalization-reevaluate that. some drugs shouldnt even be illegal
population-a one child per couple rule
suicide-if they want to die, let them die
smoking-let them do it
animal experimentation-no way. they are lives. dont eat them either
driving under the influence-they should make taxi's free for drunk people
pornography-eww but it's their choice
prisons-close them down. either make them pay fines or death row
affirmative action-should be illegal, it's discrimination</p>
<p>Bigotry on the best looking prep schools thread. Now I've seen it all.</p>
<p>How isn't same-sex marriage marriage? The passage of Proposition 8 was and is an embarrassment to the state of California and America as a whole. It was also completely unconstitutional. I don't think that the contrary is debatable unless you're a hick and decide to go on about how you don't want "gay marriage to be taught in schools." Sometimes I really wonder about the sanity of some people.</p>
<p>@ senay:
population: one child per couple rule?! i know i'm not supposed to feed the ducks- er, trolls, but um.. ?! if the child was conceived anyways, would that give them no rights? would that child be destroyed/killed or thrown into a ghetto? they have no rights, and it's not even their fault ..i mean, seriously. (anybody here read Among the Hidden? 1 child per couple rule = dumb)</p>
<p>i don't really quite understand why smoking isn't illegal, yet pot is. smoking harms others, too, by secondhand smoke, but i don't know too much about this subject (uninformed opinion! haha) so feel free to contradict! :D</p>
<p>anybody have any opinions on government education budgets? like, how they spend so much money on children with mental problems, or are falling behind, yet significantly less on the talented, smart kids? the children with mental problems (ie autism) probably aren't going to work a day in their life, while bright kids are.. in a way, the future, so i think they should spend a lot more money on smart kids. i don't know.. equilibrium? i mean, the kids who have problems, or aren't quite as smart need help too, so i'm not saying forget them, but ..</p>
<p>haha. opinions ??</p>
<p>the one child per couple rule is a horrible rule for a lot of reasons for the reasons divealive said and plus the human race would die if everyone just had one chld every couple needs to have two children to be able to equally populate the planet</p>
<p>They don't spend any money on the smart kids in middle school we had our gt class in the old theater dressing room</p>
<p>Erm, no. The human race would not die out if every couple had one child. Currently, there are over 6 billion people on the Earth. Unless a virus comes along and wipes out 99% of people on Earth or everyone becomes infertile, the population would not die out.</p>
<p>i'm not saying it's going to happen quickly but if EVERYONE had one child the population would split in half by the time that they die and again when their kids die and so on but anyways it doesn't really matter that law is pretty unenforcable</p>
<p>I don't think that 1 child per couple is really fair, because it's their decision if they want to have more kids. Also in the developing world they need to have more than one child if they want someone to support them in old age. As infant mortality rates are very high; because they would probably die of some sort of infectious disease such as malaria.</p>
<p>Prop 8 is incredibly unconstitutional, let alone stupid.
what happened to "everyone is equal"
are we going back to the "everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others??"
its kindof pathetic.
homophobia is basically racism.
good job guys.</p>
<p>Do you know how many kids in china have had their lives completely messed up by the one child law</p>
<p>Jasmyn raises an interesting point; due to the one child law there has been a huge gender discrepancy between males and females due to historical cultural preference of males. Since there are ultra sounds, female fetuses are often aborted; the problem with this is that there is an almost 1:3 female to male ratio, which results in the kidnapping of women for brides.</p>
<p>The reason why prop 8 was so controversial wasn't just because they wanted to get married but because there are a lot of rights and benefits attached to being married. </p>
<p>No, I don't. Have you ever been to China?</p>
<p>Anyway, in reference to Prop. 8, I agree, it's incredibly stupid. What gives the government the right to say, "Okay everyone, you can love this person, but not this person, because we say so!"</p>
<p>have you noticed that most of those are about money? If they are really that much in "love" they wouldn't need that piece of paper and some financial benefits to prove it</p>
<p>A growing gender imbalance among Chinese children is another legacy of China's one-child policy. According to China Daily, 118 Chinese boys were born for every 100 Chinese girls last year. The natural ratio is 106 boys per l00 girls. The 118-100 Chinese split is just for births and doesn't account for the far greater number of girls than boys who are allowed to starve to death as children, or who are sent to ill-managed orphanages: 95% of Chinese orphans are girls.</p>
<p>Okay. Lets say you meet someone you love. Why do you want to get married to them? For money? Or for something else?</p>
<p>Oh, wait. It doesn't matter. You don't need to get married anyway... it's just for money and making your taxes easier, of course.</p>
<p>well, if i could make the one child rule, i would make sure that the adoption give away thing was not possible. overpopulation is destroying the world. it disgusts me when i walk down the road and everything is paved in cement. the destruction of humans, nearly everything we touch, we destroy.</p>
<p>prop 8-completely stupid. have you heard that obama is the cause of the prop 8 being passed? because he is black, he brought more black people to polls, since black people tend to go to church and are more religious, they voted against gay marriage because it's against the sanctions of god. (i read this article about it from an accredited source)</p>
<p>Obama is for gay marriage.
=/</p>
<p>yeaaa but it's against god. (not that i have anything against gay people, i luv my gay teacher. it's okay to sin, we are human afterall) just because it's obama's view doesnt means its the blacks religious community views. obama's just giving what the majority population want and the majority of the community are not real christians (people that dont fulfill complete religious obligations)</p>
<p>Its not really a religious thing most black people aren't that religious its more of a cultural thing black people tend to be more homophobic</p>
<p>1) Obama is FOR gay marriage
2) Prop 8 was for California, so the national election with Obama would have nothing to do with a state election
3) Anyways a lot of people blame Mormons not Black people (although I don't know how they got into this, I'm not American or from California so I don't really know a lot about this)</p>