My views are far from set in stone

• Juno wrote on 2012-10-23 03:49
  I sat down and decided to hammer things out almost a decade again. Since then, I put in the effort if I'm going to have an opinion on something. As a result, there are some things that haven't changed in a while, after the initial fleshing out.
  
  At the same time, new info is always considered.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-10-23 04:04
  The cat got more fuzzy owo
• NomadTrooper wrote on 2012-10-23 04:09
  This forum is filled with leftists, and the few rightists are terribly misconceived. Sorta like Reddit.
  
  I think we should all just follow Bobyomeowmeow's example.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-10-23 04:25
  The Ron Paul hater? No thanks.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-10-23 04:31

  Quote from TLCBonaparte;967692:

  The Ron Paul hater? No thanks.

  
  
  Libertarian[S]Disney[/S]land isn't real :V
  nor is the principles behind it.
  and Paul has his own hands in Congress as well
  not at all a "less government" man.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-10-23 04:48
  see? hater be hatin
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-10-23 04:50

  Quote from TLCBonaparte;967701:

  see? hater be hatin

  
  
  it's not hatred
  hatred isn't worth it for shiny politicians who deceive others into thinking they're a Messiah
  oh and Gary Johnson is a superior Libertarian in many aspects
  for example, he's actually humane
• Juno wrote on 2012-10-23 04:59
  Also, 'set in stone'
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2012-10-23 05:45
  Only solidified, but at the same time, my treatment of people, and how I act I feel have improved a lot.
  More respectful, and sort of non-caring about what people do and think, mainly. Pretty much non-argumentative, also.
• Drizzit wrote on 2012-10-23 18:41

  Quote from Kingofrunes;967574:

  As each year goes by, I realize just how loose my views on things are. In the past few years, I've dropped my religion, eased up on abortion to the point where I no longer care what women do. It's their body and life who am I to say if they should get an abortion?
  
  I used to say no to alcohol but I threw that out the door about a year ago. Only thing that I've kept stern and steady on is no drugs/smoking, no killing, and no harming of others physically that is. Emotionally is usually done unintionally. I need to work on that portion...
  
  How set in stone are your views?

  
  You believe in no killing, but you're lax on abortion? Hypocrite...
  
  No, really though, that's one of the few things I am firm on. Either killing is wrong or it isn't, and abortion shouldn't be an exception. Feel free to disagree though.
  Overall though, I'm a philosophy major so I question everything.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-10-23 18:56
  I'm not sure if I would say my views are set in stone, but they tend to end up that way regardless. I certainly spend a lot of time thinking about everything, far more than I should, so it's rare that something is presented that I haven't even considered yet. Rather than saying my views are one way or another, everything is sort of based around my general morals and mindset and given how passive those are, I'm actually pretty neutral about most things. I just don't care about them in the slightest. For the things I do care about, though, I can have pretty strong opinions on and sometimes can even wonder how anyone could think anything else. There aren't a whole lot of things I only "kind of" think about.
  
  I didn't mean to give such an unsatisfying and incomplete answer, but the summary of it is that basically everything I think is based around how I think and is subject to constant questioning, all day everyday. So technically, no, they aren't set in stone, but they might as well be.
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2012-10-23 19:11

  Quote from Drizzit;967850:

  You believe in no killing, but you're lax on abortion? Hypocrite...
  
  No, really though, that's one of the few things I am firm on. Either killing is wrong or it isn't, and abortion shouldn't be an exception. Feel free to disagree though.
  Overall though, I'm a philosophy major so I question everything.

  
  
  Agreed, mostly.
  But what if someone is a murderer/rapist/child molester? Should they just sit in jail for the rest of their lives, doing nothing, and then dying of old age?
  And what about in a situation where a mother would die during pregnancy or child birth?
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-10-23 19:21

  Quote from Drizzit;967850:

  You believe in no killing, but you're lax on abortion? Hypocrite...
  
  No, really though, that's one of the few things I am firm on. Either killing is wrong or it isn't, and abortion shouldn't be an exception. Feel free to disagree though.
  Overall though, I'm a philosophy major so I question everything.

  
  
  I believe the severity of killing should be base on the amount of happiness the victim will and have had in its/his/her life.
• Drizzit wrote on 2012-10-23 19:28

  Quote from RicochetOrange;967856:

  Agreed, mostly.
  But what if someone is a murderer/rapist/child molester? Should they just sit in jail for the rest of their lives, doing nothing, and then dying of old age?
  And what about in a situation where a mother would die during pregnancy or child birth?

  
  I always thought cutting the balls off of rapists would be a punishment fitting the crime.
  In a situation where the mother would die, utilitarian morality could come into play, and you would save the life that you had a better chance of saving (usually the mother).
  

  Quote from TLCBonaparte;967862:

  I believe the severity of killing should be base on the amount of happiness the victim will and have had in its/his/her life.

  
  So is it ok to kill a homeless guy because his life sucks and he's an alcoholic? It's a slippery slope.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-10-23 19:44

  Quote from Drizzit;967863:

  I always thought cutting the balls off of rapists would be a punishment fitting the crime.

  
  This kind of punishment won't get us anywhere, similar to cutting the hands off of thieves or even worse, killing killers. Laws are already fueled too much by emotion and not enough by actually solving problems and thus making the quality of life higher for everyone. We can be as mad as we want at people who do bad things, but we can't fix problems under the same mindset. Locking people in a cage won't either, but at least it's better than inflicting violence upon them.