The Controversial [International] Survey!

[eumelia]

Gakked from sabotabby, creatd by realcdaae

#01 Under what circumstances would you be willing to attempt to assassinate the political leader of your country?
The last assassination in my country made things a whole lot worse, so I'm a bit iffy about that method of regime change. But if theocracy is established and those who aren't Jewish men are by law going to be considered less than human… well, desperate times.

#02 Who do you think would make a better US president: Hitler or Stalin? (You can't say neither... in this world it's illegal for you to not vote)
Stalin. His purges were a wee bit more rational… in the over all philosophical sense I think.

#03 If you had to bomb one city, anywhere in the world, which would you pick? (Picking none is not an option for this question.)
Jerusalem.
Problem solved.
(I'd give prior warning so that people and animals could leave... but yeah, I'd still pick Jerusalem).

#04 Is there ever a good reason for terrorism?
Sure. If there are good reasons for conventional war, there are good reasons for terrorism... is logic people!

#05 If there existed an infallible robot of super-human intelligence, would you vote for it as president of the world?
Resistance is futile.
Tee Hee.

#06 Under what circumstances would you agree to have your country's army disbanded?
Is this a trick question?
This is a trick question.
Let's see if I can answer this without bringing about a flame war…
No I can't.
Let's put it this way, I think the influence of my country's army on my society as an societal agent needs to be reduced… drastically.
To say more… would probably be committing treason of some kind.
I don't know, I'd have to check.

#07 When cloning technology is perfected, do you think war should be fought with clones?
Hey, Parental Units I see you're having identical twines. Would you mind terribly donating one of your children to Military R and D so that wars can be fought without wasting precious genetic material?

#08 What's more immoral, stealing to feed your children or working for an arms manufacturer?
Good question.
What's nice about it is that it isn't really a question of what situation is more immoral, but whether you are moral or not by virtue of what you think is more immoral.

#09 Should there be shame in being on welfare or other forms of state benefits?
No. Why should you be ashamed that ones paycheck doesn't ass up to the cost of living when the differences in those who have and those who don't is so massive that there is no choice but for government to intervene and make sure their citizens don't starve.

#10 If you were homeless and could get no help from government, would it be wrong to set up a home (tent/house/whatever) on land protected for environmental reasons? If you did, who would be culpable, you or government?
Government.

#11 Should people need a license to have children?
No! Emphatic no.
Do you know who gives licenses to people? Government offices. Do you know who works in government offices? Bureaucrats. Do you know what Bureaucrats are?
They are power hungry misanthropic party poopers, that's who.
Do you want these people deciding who should or shouldn't be having babies?
Yeah.
Didn't think so.

#12 Should anyone ever be forced to have an abortion, and under what circumstances?
Only if her name is Rosemary Woodhouse.

#13 Do you think it's fair that rent can be upped if you have pets but not if you have children?
Very unfair.

#14 Should corporal punishment, with parental permission, be reintroduced in schools?
I think forcing the kids to help the janitorial staff after hours is a great punishment. If one of the punished kids family is on said staff (and this happens) force them to shelve the library books under the watchful eye and ruler of the librarian (who is usually not sexy).

#15 Given that fast food is more harmful to your health than marijuana, should it be banned?
Dude! Let me eat my crap and smoke my weed in peace! Fuck, go eat your "Locally Grown" Organic shit and smoke Big Tobacco Cigarettes. We'll see who dies first.

#16 Do you think it's okay for companies to run drug tests for jobs which don't involve operating heavy or dangerous machinery?
No, if the work is being done with no complaints then companies have no right to snoop in their employees' paper pushing private lives.
Friends are something else.

#17 Are people who say they love animals but eat factory farmed meat hypocrites?
Yeah, but if it wasn't in that, it would probably be in something else.

#18 Under what circumstances would you be willing to consume human flesh?
Um… if it were fried?

#19 Are all (post-natal) human lives equal in value/worth?
No, it's not.
If all human life were equal, well there wouldn't have been all these revolutions and identity politics movements now would there?

#20 If communication was developed with an animal sufficient that they could communicate consent, would it be wrong to have consensual sex with the animal?
No it wouldn't be wrong.
It'd be gross.
But then again, much of what happens between two people is gross too, so big diff.

#21 What do you think the age of sexual consent should be?
Oy.
Head ache.
Everything in Western (and other non-Western) society when it comes to sex is so fucked up that age of consent is really not the most important thing, seeing as adults who engage in sex with children don't care and children have sex with each other before they even know what consent is.
Let's talk about that shall we.

#22 Do you think porn that contains hyper-realistic depictions of children (modelled, painted, etc) should be legally regarded as the same as real-child porn?
Is a real child being harmed in the making of this porn?
Then no, it shouldn't be treated the same way.

#23 If you had to burn one book, what book would you pick?
Sin City by Frank Miller… oh yeah… you're so edgy by depicting nothing fucking new!
In a crap way.

#24 Would you burn a cross whilst dressed in white robes for a million dollars?
There is very little I wouldn't do for a million dollars, because, really. C'mon. But I'd also donate the money to people who had been hurt by hate crime, so there! Nyah!

#25 Should time travel, if it ever becomes a reality, be legal given all the risks it poses to life as we know it?
Only if it's guarded by Albert Einstein… or the Monks of Time… or Quantum… of Solace.

#26 If you had an envelope containing absolute proof of the existence or non-existence of any deity of your choice, would you open it?
Being the Agnostic that I am… then yes I would, though I feel it wouldn't make any real difference in the real world. Also, if you believe you really shouldn't need to open it and if you're atheist… well, ditto.

#27 Should suicide be legal/acceptable for long-term debilitating/emotionally painful incurable mental illnesses? Does your answer to this differ from your answer to the same question with regards to painful, debilitating physical illnesses?"
Suicide as a phenomena needs to be reduced, like most things that cause harm to people. But to make it illegal… no, that causes more harm than good in the long run. Like most laws that take away the choice of freedom over ones body, very little dignity is involved and when a person loses their dignity… there is very little left to lose.

And adding (a variation of) another question that comes from The Controversial [American Centric] Survey:
#28 Do you think others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
I think some of the answers may surprise them… but I think there is general agreement on my f-list.
But I'm curious.
Hmm, dear readers? Have I been judged? Is it heads or tails?

Now that's what I call a controversy!

Comments

[thecityofdis.livejournal.com]

And then they'd start killing each other over just exactly what it is god wants.

Now that's a story waiting to happen.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many times God would have to nuke them before they got the message...