Some of my views may be offensive or impractical. Just sayin’, fair warning and all.
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On World Population
There are too many people on Earth. Especially in places that seem to lack the capability to feed and care for their amount of people. Even if we don’t actively cull the population, procreation should be restricted to replacement levels.
On The Justice System
There should be no incentive for prosecutors to prosecute. Prosecutors should not be able to gain notoriety based on the number of people they put away. Restrictive term limits would help, but ideally after serving as a prosecutor an attorney should be barred from serving in any other elected office.
Obscenity laws, and any others that are based on the subjective principle of contemporary community standards (like the Miller test) should be abolished. They are an affront to freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
On Politics
The right to vote should be contingent on exceeding an intelligence threshold. You should also have to pass a test showing a high knowledge of current events. Same goes for those running for elected office.
It should be required that laws relating to technology must be authored by someone with a firm grasp on and extensive knowledge of the technology in question. Same goes for patent office employees.
No act of congress or law should exceed ten pages of single-spaced text. If you can’t fit the idea into that space it is probably too convoluted to be practical or has content unrelated to the primary stated purpose of the act or law.
On Law Enforcement
Police officers should have all of their interactions with the public recorded on video. These recordings should be public record, and the police should have no way to alter the original source video files.
The police should not be allowed to lie to suspects to elicit a confession.
On Advertising
Automakers should stop saying that their vehicles are “best in its class” without also stating what other vehicles are in that class. When you get specific enough, every vehicle could be in its own class.
On Foreign Aid
Any aid should dispensed through a U.S. representative in the foreign country. It should not be controlled by those in power in the recipient country, if they knew what they were doing they wouldn’t need the help (this excludes natural disaster aid, of course).
Aid should not be given to unsustainable societies. Certain areas of the Earth aren’t good places for humans to live. Such societies should be allowed to die out rather than be artificially sustained with assistance.
On Euthanasia
A human should be allowed to decide whether or not they continue living. It is cruel to force or even ask someone to live if their quality of life is diminished due to pain, physical disability, or mental deterioration. No stigma or guilt should be placed on someone choosing death over a diminished life.
On Bloodsport
Prisoners serving life sentences and those condemned to death should have the option to participate in gladiatorial combat in a public arena. A condition of participation would be becoming an organ donor. This would have the benefits of reducing prison populations, income from ticket sales (which could reduce taxes, deficit, or go to victim’s families), and healthy organs available for harvest after a fight.
