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Would you do meth if it was legalized?
No. I'm straight edge.

Are you for or against abortion?
I think it should absolutely be an issue of choice, but that current limits leave it too long. By the time the baby is discernably capable of movement it just seems far too late, for me.

Would our country (United States) fall with a woman president?
I don't think any country would - the UK got through Thatcher, and she wasn't just a woman, she was the spawn of Satan.

Do you believe in the death penalty?
No - not because I don't believe in killing people, as there are some people I would contentedly kill with my bare hands over relative trivialities, if it was in any way legal - but because we have a great capacity for finding innocent people guilty that you can never really be sure.

Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
No. I wish that all narcotics and intoxicants would be completely banned and that there would be far, far stricter punishment for users.

Do you believe in God?
No. I don't believe in any gods at all. People think that because I have the weird "psychic abilities" that I must believe in a lot of spiritualist twaddle, but I don't. I think ultimately that there are balanced energies which can be manipulated to an extent, but that most of what we consider "spooky" or supernatural is really just science we haven't grasped yet.

Let's face it: we used to believe the world was flat, that the moon was made of cheese and that we could heal people by letting blood and phlegm. Science is developing all the time - look at concepts like Quantum Theory or the modern understanding that we have not five senses, but more than twenty, and you'll probably start to get it...

I can't tell you categorically that there is no God, but I don't believe in any.

Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
Of course. What possible reason can there be for any state to decide what two consenting adults are and aren't allowed to do in their private lives. It's primarily a matter of rights: why should two people be allowed to commit to each other, and receive benefits that two others who may be equally in love and equally committed cannot? It's just plain fucking stupidity.

Do you think its wrong that so many Hispanics are moving to the USA?
No. My ancestors were massacred at Wounded Knee. Almost all Americans are immigrants and they should never fucking forget it.

A twelve year old girl has a baby...should she keep it?
I'm pro human extinction, so I wouldn't encourage anyone to breed, but it depends on the circumstances and the maturity of the child. AND the competence of the immediate family.

Should the alcohol age be lowered to 18?
It's already 18 in the UK. I think it should be banned altogether, or at least suffer a higher punishment for underage drinking. I fucking HATE drunk people.

Assisted suicide is illegal...do you agree?
That's a badly phrased question. I agree that it's illegal, because it is; but I don't believe it should remain so. As humans, we should be our own masters, and we should all have a living will expressing our wishes should certain circumstances occur, and I feel that individuals should be allowed to agree to flip the switch, as it were; we should ask those who we trust, who are willing to do so, to oversee that our wishes are carried out.

Do you believe in spanking your children?
Yes. A short, sharp slap across the backs of the legs worked for me. It's classical conditioning: you're bad, you feel pain. Kids learn.

Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?
Yeah. Fuck yeah. It's just a bunch of material. I'd burn any flag you wanted for that. I'd burn a flag on a dare, actually.

A mother is declared innocent after murdering her 5 children in a temporary insanity case, do you agree?
I don't believe in temporary insanity. I believe in provocation as justifiable cause, but not temporary insanity. I also have no sympathy whatsoever for bad parents. I'd like to see them all put to the workhouse.

Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
People judge me no matter what I say, so I couldn't give a fuck, frankly.

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This is one of the more interesting memes I've seen of late...

I'm sure I've said something to this that will make at least one person defriend me...

Fuck 'em. Not worth it, then, are they?

Exactly. Nothing like controversy to weed out assholes...

Nope.

Heh...I think for the most part I'm with you, my grandmother was from the generation that had you go out and cut your own 'switch' for punishment. On the other hand I'd disagree regarding narcotics, partially because I hope that, if regulated, drugs would be safer and no longer made of wtf ever people found in their kitchen, and thereby less deadly; and in part because here in the U.S. authorities seem to know no bounds when it comes to suspected drug criminals.

I hate all and any narcotics and intoxicants. I see them as unnecessary and detrimental to society and to individuals and I generally regard people who involve themselves in them to be complete and utter morons. There are a few cases where people I like and respect lower themselves to that level, in which case I get very angry with them for not respecting themselves or using their, in all likelihood, reasonably decent intellect. Often, they'll be excommunicated, because I don't waste time on idiots who can't think things through.

I see no reason, ever, for drugs to be legalised. At all. Regulating them would just create a value-based blackmarket and encourage their wider usage, which completely defeats the purpose.

When I said bad parents should be put to the workhouse I wasn't kidding; I'd love to see drug dealers receive hard labour or some such severe and prolongued suffering; with no hope of parole. My level of hatred for these people is boundless.

I'm more of a "both sides of the story" or what not kind of person. Because I personally wouldn't engage in something or some kind of behavior doesn't mean that I expect everyone else in the world to live up to this standard. Would I personally have an abortion/smoke/do coke etc.,...no, and that's fine, and I have a group around me that is ok and respects that; but for those that do I would hope for the best. I think that people, in general, are going to do what they're going to do, and I'd rather see them safe in their practices than dead in them, from back alley abortios with coat hangers or blunts laced with ammonia.

America... America

What does the rest of the world think of us, Americans, as a whole? It's hard for me because I am not an American by birth or citizenship, but I consider myself because it's where I've lived my entire 20 years. It's broken but it's mine. Too self hating to feel otherwise.

What does it feel like to know something in the future? Is it about you or strangers around the world? Is it always tragic or sometimes happy or mundane?

I generally only pick up the major tragedies - 9/11, the Paddington rail crash, bombings in the far east (that was while I was awake)... I did pick up on the Heathrow crash landing, recently, which was weird because I grew up maybe three miles from the place it landed; I was born on the periphery of the airport.

The problem is, most of the stuff I pick up on I initial write off, because I'm pretty sceptical. I don't even acknowledge most of it, so it's not as though I anticipate every negative event that happens in the world. Some of them are more vivid and really stand out - those are the ones I'll later see repeated on the news.

It all sounds completely ridiculous, and I'm mostly pretty cynical about other psychics, but all I know is that it happens to me an I can't explain it.

i like the line in icky thump by the white stripes: why don't you kick yourself out, you're an immigrant, too.

i'm not sure how i feel about slapping kids. mostly because the association for me is discipline = pain = fear = resentment. like, i don't forget that my mum never laid a hand on us, but my dad would. & which one do i respect more? no question.

your answers are all well thought-out & interesting. idk, i like your strong sense of what you believe in.

Thanks. :)

why is there no question about legalised prostitution? I think that's an important question. c'mon controversy meme.