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Originally Posted by analog
There are many things I support, but won't pay for, and many things I DON'T support, and WILL pay for.
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There are many things I support, and must pay for, and there are many things I support, and MUST pay for.
I don't subscribe to practically
ANY of the policies of the current (so-called) Liberal Party in Australia. Their foreign policy, their industrial relations policy, their environmental policy, their mandatory detention of refugees etc. However, as a member of the Australian public and a reasonable resident (not yet citizen), I still pay my taxes and pay them glady. Why? Because is it my obligation. Indeed, personally I'd be happy to pay
higher taxes if the current government had a more reasonable and humanistic social policy. Having said that, I know I may be in the minority there and this is probably a result of my left-wing political leaning and "liberal" upbringing.
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I support the legalization of marijuana, but i'm not paying for people to toke up. I support gay marriage, but i'm not paying for any marriage ceremony- whether it's homosexual OR heterosexual. I support premarital sex, but i'm not going to pay for condoms or birth control for everyone.
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Very good points. However, scientific research into saving lives is a bit different from social policy with regards to drug use and sexuality.
Without same-sex marriages, people are not going to die. Without joints, drug users are not going to die. Without a cure for Alzheimers, Parkinsons and cystic fibrosis, people
ARE going to die.
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As to the topic directly- stem cell research is good. Some of you people with your unborn-baby bleeding hearts drive me nuts. There are so many incurable diseases afflicting hundreds of thousands of people, people who have lived full lives, could have more years ahead of them with treatment, or really just could live without pain. I wonder how many pro-lifers against stem cell research have ever volunteered in a cancer ward in a hospital, or at a nursing home and seen the how parkinson's, huntington's, diabetes, dementia, etc., ravage the people they affect and ruin their livelihood. How selfish it is to look at a few "unborn babies" (if they insist on saying they're already people) and say they're more important than the hundreds of thousands of americans- and, indeed, people worldwide- SUFFERING life, rather than living it.
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Well said.
Mr Mephisto