Your thoughts on...

Abortion: My personal beliefs lean towards the Pro-choice aspect. Pro-choice abortion is the belief that women have the right to choose to abort a baby from their body. The "pro-choice" view is that a baby does not have human rights within the mother's womb. It was the U.S. Supreme Court that "legalized" abortion as a result of Roe vs. Wade on January 22, 1973. Just in case you idiots out there didn't know. To me it's an issue of personal freedom. We live in a society where we have the technology to control our own reproduction. This is an advancement over the animals who have no choice. Animals have to reproduce because of their sexual instincts. Humans have the same instincts, but we now have birth control and abortion which allows us more control over when and how many babies we will have. Abortion is also an issue of personal freedom. Who should make that choice? Should the government decide when you are going to have kids? Should religious leaders control your reproduction? Or should you decide it for yourself? I believe that reproduction is a personal right and that it is no one's business other than the parents to make that choice. If the mother makes the wrong choice, it's her wrong choice to make. That's what personal freedom is all about. It's the right to make your own mistakes and not have the government make the mistakes for you.

Gay Marriage: "We cannot accept the view that Amendment 2's prohibition on specific legal protections does no more than deprive homosexuals of special rights. To the contrary, the amendment imposes a special disability on those persons alone. Homosexuals are forbidden the safeguards that others enjoy or may seek without constraint" Ask just about anyone. They'll all tell you they're in favor of equal rights for homosexuals. They'll all say, yes, gays should have the same rights in housing, jobs, public accomodations, and should have equal access to government benefits, equal protection of the law, etcetera, etcetera. Then you get to gay marriage. And that's when all this talk of equality stops dead cold. More than half of all people in the United States oppose gay marriage, even though three fourths are otherwise supportive of gay rights. This means that many of the same people who are even passionately in favor of gay rights oppose gays on this one issue. Why all the passion? It's because there is a lot of misunderstanding about what homosexuality really is, as well as the erroneous assumption that gay people enjoy the same civil rights protections as everyone else. There are also a lot of stereotypes about gay relationships, and even a great deal of misunderstanding of what marriage itself is all about and what its purpose is.

Gay Adoption: Researchers estimate that the total number of children nationwide living with at least one gay parent ranges from six to 14 million. Social science evidence agrees that the best environment for the well-being of children is a household with both a mother and a father. A homosexual environment, on the other hand, can model homosexual behavior to children. "Children need a role model, both male and female. Every child has the right to both a mother and a father,". Homosexual activists put their personal desires above the rights of these children to have a chance at a normal family life with a father and mother.

Stereotypes and Labeling: Considering that labels and stereotypes are created by anyone and everyone, I could give a shit. So I'm not really even going to address this. It's how we give first impressions, everyone percieves things differently. And truthfully, if I see someone wearing a hollister shirt and I see someone else wearing a Rammstein shirt, I'm more likely to talk to the person wearing the Rammstein shirt based on what they are wearing. Labeling is an easy way to catagorize people.

Politics: I personally don't get into politics too much, but in order to understand the world we live in, we need some form of knowledge on our government and political affairs. George W. Bush. I have to say 90% of this site hates him. And about 60% of that 90% only hate him because their friends "hate him". I personally agree with all Bush is doing. War is by all means not a bad thing, in fact, I encourage war in a situation like this. Then the arguement always comes up that innocent people are dying, it's in a country that isn't involved. This is bullshit, I like to think humans have better sense than to throw this shit in a discussion. We are not at war with Iraq, we are at war with the terrorists IN Iraq. And truthfully I don't think they have any rights at this point, not after the little 9/11 stunt. If we need a so called "Dictator" then we need him.

Religion: Religion is just something for people to believe in. I think when people believe in something higher than themselves they feel a sense of security and stability in their life. For those who don't, it is basically guidelines and beliefs that one follows that does make them comfortable. Personally I'm agnostic and I believe in very different things, I mean, I believe in Evolution but I also believe in Reincarnation.

Human Cloning: As far as I'm concerned, any advance in technology and Science should be explored. And the whole "Clones won't feel the same way, like they are missing something."
One thing to say to you:
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how or where you were created. You still have the friends YOU made, and you still have the dreams YOU created.

Stem Cell Research: Like I said, any advance in technology and science should be explored.

Self-harm/Mutilation: Kill yourself, mutilate yourself- I don't care, just don't bring your drama my way unless you really are looking for help.

Suicide: No one should ever feel like their life is so low that they don't know what to do with themselves anymore. Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. There are medications for that. A kid during high school a couple years back brought a gun to school and shot himself out in the courtyard next to the History windows. I was in a History class. I just find it very hard to believe that out of a school full of 2,000 people, no one made him feel, and found nothing throughout the day to convince him not to. It's definately given me doubts about humanity.