Lindir The Green wrote:If the Buggers invade
ENDER WILL SAVE US ALL!!!!
More on topic: I am against the private ownership of guns because I feel there is no way to reliably and efficiently gauge the mental health of people buying guns. Also, guns
do give people "ultimate power". Anybody holding a firearm can upon a whim use it to shoot other people. It takes a much stronger repression of anger not to harm others when you have the means at the squeeze of a finger than it would if you had to resort to other physical means. Most people do sometimes have lapses in this repression, when they are in rage. If not, we would see a lot less ctrl+a ctrl+d in Spring. And I am for people not harming other people.
Feminism: I think that there
are biological differences between the sexes, and while this should by no means be a reason for unequal treatment by others, it may well be a reason for different choices by the individuals. Thus, the statistics people like to cite (about there not being a lot of women CEO's, head professors, even the difference in wages) may be irrelevant. By biological differences, I refer mainly to the ability to give birth and differences in brain chemistry and routing.
I feel that there is a tendency to mask over the innate differences amongst ourselves because people think that the basis for an equal society is to say we are all alike except for that unfortunate thing with the genitalia. We should live in an equal society because we choose to, because any type of discrimination is unethical and ultimately unproductive, not because we blind ourselves to the differences between men and women.
