Viability is an interesting way to look at the issue, but I think we need to acknowledge that there is no question that life begins at conception, but we have to be careful, because a culture considered Great, the Ancient Greeks, practiced infanticide. Many of us want to live in white liberal areas where women have the right to do what they want with their bodies, but a culture that does not recognize co-ownership of the fetus by the male may be outcompeted by ones that do unless it has a monopoly on power.
I think the punishment should be ten years plus a percentage of a murder sentence corresponding to the stage of development of the fetus. I am still deciding whether I might support emergency contraception pills if there is a sound moral argument, such as based on method of administration.
A nation that respects teleology, the science of the true purposes of things, will do well. The teleological function of marriage is to prevent social problems associated with children of single mothers. Its function is inherently related to heterosexual reproduction, although not every marriage fulfills its teleological function. I support a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Perhaps a secondary teleological function is to provide for widowed women. Perhaps we should allow gay marriage for women on Social Security.
Climate change is happening and it is man-made. There has been some warming already. I’ve struggled with whether God will save believers from climate change without them stopping fossil fuel usage. I think if you believe in the fossil record, which I do, you have to believe that we could go extinct if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels.
Thankfully, most of Earth will still be inhabitable under any conceivable emissions scenario thanks to peak oil, and people like to live in warm areas.
But just in case we try to burn all the fossil fuels, I support an immediate carbon tax to achieve as little warming as possible.
The number of majority Hispanic counties along our southern border, and in California a little further north, has increased substantially in the past decades. I myself descend from one Spanish immigrant to New Netherland named Gonsalus, but it looks like most American Hispanics are non-White.
I support ceding a contiguous area from majority Hispanic counties to Mexico in return for accepting relocation of non-White Hispanics living in the rest of the country.
Most people believe America needs to continue to atone for its historic injustice of chattel slavery of blacks, although some think slavery was an acceptable way of preserving a 100-IQ average population (Whites) from completely mixing with a 70-IQ average population (Africans) until it was illegal in any given state. I’ve struggled with the assumed loss of status after an African-American President as a member of the oldest White family in the U.S. who occasionally thought that they chose the Presidents by virtue of them being all White and whether I can mention scientific racism to help prevent indefinite expectations of equal representation for non-Whites in every organization.
I support creating an autonomous region from 40% or higher African-American counties or a larger area of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia where the president is required to be African-American and African-Americans receive other benefits, such as a tax credit, and a substantial one-time reparation credit for African-Americans in other counties willing to move there.
It is time to make English the national language, while acknowledging colonial populations that spoke German, French, and Spanish that persist in small numbers to the current day without recognizing them as official minority languages.
The risk of being executed for a false conviction outweighs any argument for the death penalty.
My mother and I have both had chemical lobotomies against our will, although I never forcibly resisted mine until once several years of dosage into it. These drugs substantially reduce brain volume and cause psychotic symptoms in healthy people attempting to withdraw from the drugs. I believe a culture that does this needs to take a serious look at itself. All mutations that persist in a population can be considered adaptive at the group level, and I believe my mom’s may be a part of a bigger gene network that got separated from its other members and may have reunited with them in me. Up to 75% of schizophrenia diagnoses are for inappropriate behavior, and anti-depressants are unnatural and a bad alternative to exercise and fresh air. I believe we need much stronger regulation of psychiatry.
I’ve recently seen material that refers to those with partial White ancestry as White in context. I believe any form of this needs to be banned including publications by private citizens. There is no reason we shouldn’t enact recognition of Whiteness as a complete White genome, which is the truth: the genes are recessive and must all be present to be considered White.
It’s been hard to believe that an anti-vaccine advocate is really a cabinet member, although I thought it might be a punishment for briefly publishing this view myself. I believe vaccines most likely do not cause autism, and I looked into it at one point.
We need to make sure traditional restrictions around access to the scientific process are working correctly.
I’m an avid free software user myself and have released a few libraries that a few people used. We should provide tax credits to organizations that use free software in order to help get the software to a higher quality, and require organizations that receive federal funding to use open formats for all work that is published, if this isn’t already done.
The Rust programming language, which offers memory-safety and other safety features while maintaining performance within a factor of 2 of C, was created after I suggested some aspects of it, although it would take me a while to learn it. As far as I know, I founded the Python programming language, another memory-safe language.
New development by organizations receiving federal funding should be in memory-safe languages to avoid hackers ruining your day.
I support a constitutional amendment to ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. We need to preserve the original principles of Federalism that our nation was founded upon.