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1 - do you support the right for gay couples to legally marry?
2 - do you support the death penalty?
3 - do you believe that freedom of speech should be absolute, or are their some limits on what people should be allowed to say?
4 - do you believe that part of the role of taxation is to redistribute resources more equally?
5 - do you believe that people should be forced to learn the official language of a nation if they want to emigrate to it?
6 - do you believe that prayer should be prohibited from schools?
My answers
1 - yes; gays deserve the same right to build their families as they see fit
2 - no; there should be no system for destroying human lives
3 - no; freedom of speech ends where hatred begins
4 - yes; partly, equally, and sensibly
5 - yes; not knowing the official language could be a barrier to success, and it's official for a reason: it is often language of law and legislation
6 - no; practicing one's religion is a right (on an individual level)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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