Dear reader,
There has been a request for a list of my values because they have changed so much in the past few weeks, so I figured I’d entertain the idea and create a list; this list can also be seen as an outline for a lot of things that I will be discussing in this blog. A lot of what is below I have sculpted from previous ideas and values, but a lot of it is new, I feel. These values are not in order from most important to least or vice-versa. I feel are all very important to understand before reading anything I have to say. These are a blob of beliefs and opinions which I will discuss later, so understand that these are summaries of the beliefs, not the value in its entirety. Without further ado, let’s go:
-The environment’s protection and preservation is neccessary.
-The government is so messed up that it needs to be overhauled.
-”The medium is the message.”
-Advertising is subliminal and often times used to exploit children, teenagers, and even some adults.
-Money is awful because it does awful things to people.
-War is not inevitable, and needs to stop.
-Talking is the best way to sort out an issue.
-People should be allowed to bear arms, but should understand the implications of this freedom.
-Outsourcing is wrong; people should support the “MADE IN THE USA” movement.
-Art should never be censored, above all things.
-Censorship is unAmerican.
-Banning books should be made illegal.
-Separation of church and state is needed.
-Wiretapping is an infringement on the First Amendment.
-Teachers should be allowed to make their own decisions without being abused and hassled by parents.
-Students aren’t challenged as they should be.
-College admissions are just a puzzle that can be solved with the right amount of money.
-It is better to be poor and intelligent than to be dumb and rich.
-All news has a subjective spin due to human nature.
-Most of life is subjective.
-The three R’s [reduce, reuse, recycle] should be followed religiously.
-The institution of marriage is a joke. It should only be for those who are religiously affiliated, and everyone else should have to go through a hardcore civil union application that should deny or accept based on whether the two people will stay together, be responsible with children, etc.
-The two parties that we have in the US are a joke, also. People should be allowed to support some democratic ideas and some republican ideas if they so desire.
-People need to work on their vocabulary.
-People should read instead of watch TV.
-Wikipedia is a neat idea, but getting slightly dangerous.
-Non-abstinence sex education should be implemented to help bring down the levels of children living in poverty or in other unhealthy situations.
-Intermediate families should bond through a mix of educational and entertaining activities instead of just watching TV or driving to school. It’s important to know your intermediate family on an intellectual level.
-Every child should go to camp. And by camp, I mean outdoors camp where you actually are literally living outside.
-God does not exist, but everyone is welcome to their own religion and should be respected for that.
-Women and men are equals. They should receive equal pay and equal merit always.
-Minimum wage is not a living wage.
-Houses should be more proportional to the size of the family, as should cars.
-Depression is an epidemic, and must be stopped without drugs.
-Marijuana should be legalized and cigarettes should be banned.
-Kids should be able to drink at 16, but drive at 18.
-Public transportantion needs to be strengthened in the U.S.
-People need to stop being apathetic about things that do not directly affect them but harm another.
-Genocide needs to end.
-Allowing China to continue letting their coal mines burn is unnacceptable.
-Organic food [and to take it a step farther: vegetarian/vegan] diets are the way to a healthier lifestyle.
-Fast food should be outlawed [exceptions being healthier options like Chipotle].
-All you need is love.
There are many more, but I figured that was a good place to start.
Thoughts?
Love always,
Lizzy
Andy Quinn said,
September 7, 2007 @ 3:30 am
Thoughts!
“Money is awful because it does awful things to people.”
Human nature does bad things to people; money, like religion before it, is just the avenue it takes. Money is an amazing invention for commerce, etc.
“Wiretapping is an infringement on the First Amendment.”
Is it really? You can say whatever you want if your phone is wiretapped, and there’s no mention of PRIVATE speech in there, is there?
“The two parties that we have in the US are a joke, also. People should be allowed to support some democratic ideas and some republican ideas if they so desire.”
You can! I know very few straight-party voters and there are always center candidates like Kirk, Richardson, Giuliani…
” Marijuana should be legalized and cigarettes should be banned.”
You’re half-right, but the whole point of legalizing pot is that people are responsible enough to make their own decisions. Cigarettes shouldn’t be banned. It’s like Reagan said – I don’t believe in a gov’t that protects us from ourselves.
startyourrevolution said,
September 8, 2007 @ 6:13 pm
[[Take into consideration that I put a disclaimer in before I made my list... that these were vague. And I guess by vague, I mean not clear and still developing/not totallyr refined. I should probably edit things twelve times before I put them up.]]
1. Money – an “avenue” for awful behavior is probably a better definition than it just doing awful things to people; however, I do not feel like it is very amazing. That might be because I dislike economics and the complications of it, but that’s me.
2. Wiretapping – Good call. I really should have not used the First Amendment and instead said that it was dishonest and sneaky.
3. Two parties – Your logic is a bit flawed on this one. “I know very few straight-party voters” is what is called an informal fallacy [accidental, to be specific]. Just because YOU know only a few of them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Most people don’t look into politics and read up on the views of candidates because they don’t care – a lot of people are going to vote Democratic because they are so afraid of another dubya, without even seeing that many Republicans [generalization] have better ideas than some of the Democrats. If only 40% of Americans voted in the last election, obviously not enough people care about the two parties.
4. Marijuana & cigarettes – Cigarettes physically kill you. Pot does not. If cigarettes kill you, and you’re smoking them… aren’t you killing yourself? Suicide’s illegal in the United States, so why isn’t smoking cigarettes? [I feel like this logic is a bit odd, but think about it.] Why should we have something that can [and will] kill people legal? I guess you could also look at it from the perspective that guns are legal… and they kill people… I’m still working on this one.
Andrew Quinn said,
September 26, 2007 @ 5:40 am
“Cigarettes physically kill you. Pot does not.”
In addition to the psychological effects, one marijuana joint contains all the tar, C02, etc in a half pack of cigarettes as well as some nicotine.
startyourrevolution said,
September 26, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
Pot, if bought from a reliable source, is grown organically.
I’d like to see where you found those ingredients or who said so; from my research, I have not seen any statistics which show any deaths from pot nor have I seen anything on a reliable site about the ingredients [I've seen health projects that talk about how pot messes with testoterone and such, but I tend to raise my eyebrow at such poppycock...]. But honestly, send me a website, newspaper article, or a book if you know of any in particular that supply such information so I can read it.