Monday Morning Musings...

I think that we should completely allow school children to opt out of sex education courses.  I believe that the children who opt out of sex education courses should be prevented from having sex, as there are public diseases as well as children who are borne from their ignorance.  If a child opts out of sex ed, we should prevent that child from ever being able to utilize his or her genitals in a way that might be socially unacceptable, bringing consequences on others who have become unwilling victims of this child's ignorance.  Let's do this by, oh, let's say, cutting off his cock and balls.  And sewing up her vagina.  That way, neither the children nor the public they belong to will ever be bothered with their dirty, filthy, shameful genitals again, and they needn't learn how or why those former genitals could be used for anything other than chopping off or sewing up.

I think the abortion issue should be like the vegetarian issue: you don't see a lot of vegetarians protesting McDonald's because other people are eating meat.  Ok, to be fair, McDonald's doesn't have a lot of actual meat.  Let's change it to Outback.  You don't see a lot of vegetarians protesting Outback because they object to other people eating meat.  I'm pretty sure, at this time, no one is being forced to eat a steak if they don't want to.  I'm pretty sure, at this time, no one is being force to have an abortion if they don't want one.  If you have a moral objection to having an abortion... Don't Have One.

If you speed and get caught, you get a ticket.  Let's say you get a ticket for $1,000, hypothetically speaking, and this amount of money is the absolute most money you can get ticketed for when you get caught speeding.  And this is what we, as a society, have deemed is The Punishment for speeding.  If you make $2,000 a month, this punishment is much more severe than if you make $100,000 a month.  Seems to me, losing 50% of your monthly income is a different punishment from losing 1% of your monthly income.  Seems almost like it's not really a punishment at all to be fined 1%.  And yet, it's still considered The Punishment.  To me, this is like spanking a robot when it misbehaves.  A robot doesn't care if you spank it.  But a robot DOES care if you end a sentence with a preposition.  Syntax errors like that are torturous to computers at. 

Seems to me the old rule of If You Smelt It, You Dealt It unfairly punishes nonsmokers and others who have not destroyed their sense of smell.