July 6 - GoT Wine and Pervasive, Dangerous Stupidity
"Diamonds are nothing more than lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."
- Malcolm Forbes
Heh. Just don't drink the House Baelish red.
All I can really say is holy sh%t. That would be . . . exciting.
This is one of the places where my US individual-freedom oriented view really diverges from the parentalist European states. To me, the notion of outlawing surrogacy because it inevitably means someone is being exploited is incredibly narrow minded and self defeating. How many times does it have to be shown that if there is something people want, then there will be a market for it before people learn? Drugs? Prostitution? Abortion? Alcohol? Prohibition does not work, and only serves to expose the potentially exploited service providers to a greater risk of really, really nasty exploitation.
This is an angle on these laws I hadn't thought of. It makes sense, though. Where are you registered to vote, Zack?
This. Couldn't have said it better.
Hahaha wow. That's awesome.
ReplyDeleteOh, sure. Classic prohibition. Yeah, in at least this one respect, 'Merica knows what's up. I really get tired of the other moral arguments with this one, too. I read that book last summer, the outsourced self. It's unbelievable how preachy it was, and how people just get in their heads that this is violating some kind of sacrosanct medical line. Gahhh
.....I'm not registered yet.....
Yeah, wow, those last two are pretty interesting. I didn't realize that OR was the epicenter, that sucks. Great that they enacted the Dr.'s signature thing though
I doubt that either place you could register is likely to be very interesting this fall, in terms of congressional elections. Oregon will have a few interesting ballot measures.
ReplyDeleteYeah - it absolutely makes me crazy, the vaccine thing.