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User talk:LibAsCanBe

2008-09-28T20:58:19Z

LibAsCanBe:

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Welcome to CP! I'm going to bug you already :) By "freely available birth control" do you mean "free" as in "zero cost" or as in "zero restrictions?" [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 16:47, 28 September 2008 (EDT)

:Hey, no problem at all. By "freely available", I mean "zero restrictions". I don't see anything wrong with sex before marriage for the sole reason of pleasure, I just don't believe the tax payer should foot the bill. [[User:LibAsCanBe|LibAsCanBe]] 16:54, 28 September 2008 (EDT)

::That's what I figured, given your economics view, but you never know. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 16:57, 28 September 2008 (EDT)

:::It's fine, I worded it confusingly. I'll change it. [[User:LibAsCanBe|LibAsCanBe]] 16:58, 28 September 2008 (EDT)

User talk:LibAsCanBe

2008-09-28T20:54:19Z

LibAsCanBe:

User:LibAsCanBe

2008-09-28T20:42:08Z

LibAsCanBe: New page: '''My Political Views''' I regard myself as a social liberal, and wear the label proudly. I believe in equal and universal rights for both men and women, for people of all races and relig...

'''My Political Views'''
I regard myself as a social liberal, and wear the label proudly. I believe in equal and universal rights for both men and women, for people of all races and religions. I don't believe that anyone should be excluded from any position for reasons of biology or conscience.

I believe gun control is an absolute necessity - in fact, I am totally for the banning of guns throughout society, except for the army and specially-trained firearms officers in the police. At this point it is worthy to note that I live in Britain, where the police don't carry guns anyway, so this actually changes nothing in my country. I have never been able to swallow the idea that more people would be killed if there were less guns. Nor can I swallow the idea that anyone can buy armour-piercing bullets and claim they are for hunting.

I believe birth control should be freely available to everyone. I also believe that it should be a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion, up until the age at which a fetus is viable outside its mother's womb (I believe that is currently around 22 weeks, though if I find myself to be wrong I will change it. Regardless, I believe that once the baby has a good chance of survival outside its mother's womb, an abortion is no longer acceptable unless it is necessary to save the mother's life). I do not believe in the labels "pro-life" and "pro-choice" - "pro-life" implies that those holding contrary opinions are "pro-death", whereas "pro-choice" implies that those holding contrary opinions are "anti-freedom".

Homosexuality is not a concern of mine. As far as I'm aware, homosexuality as a concept or lifestyle does not harm me or affect my rights, so why should I be offended by it? What consenting adults get up to behind closed doors is none of my business.

'''My Religious Views'''
I am an absolute atheist. I do not, nor shall I ever, believe in any supernatural being. I consider it superstition and nothing more, and I trust my life to science and rationalism.

That said, I cannot deny that religion has brought a number of good things to our society. I just don't believe it has any place in my life, and indeed it can have bad effects on modern society, not least of which is stopping people from living how they want to live. That said, I don't believe I have any right to dictate anyone's religious beliefs to them.

I am absolutely against the teaching of religion in school. Teaching any religion not only offends those of different religions, but it also prejudices the children to a certain way of thinking. I want my children to discover (or reject) their own spirituality, not have it forced on them by their school.

'''My Economic Views'''
Economically, I am an extreme conservative. I believe in the free market system, allowing people to make their own success or failure and keeping the government out of it except where intervention is absolutely necessary to protect the people. It should be the right of every person to make a profit, and anyone who earns any money should have the right to spend it however they want, after tax of course.

My one leftist leaning in this area is that I believe in a higher rate of tax to help society's less fortunate. There is a tendancy among some to believe that poor people are poor through their own fault - that they are too lazy or stupid to find well-paying jobs. The sad truth is that often it is our hardest-working or brightest who, by virtue of the free market system, have ended up at the bottom of the ladder. The government must help these people, and charity simply won't do it. This is an inevitable side-effect of the free market system, and a system where some become poor is favourable to a system where everyone becomes poor (as in communism).

Debate: Do Atheist believe they have a soul?

2008-09-24T22:53:29Z

LibAsCanBe:

A soul is seperate from the body. God has given us an individual soul that departs us when we pass from this life. Do Atheists believe in having a soul?--[[User:Jpatt|jp]] 12:32, 5 July 2008 (EDT)

No. We are material beings. Mind, spirit, soul are functions of the brain. This isn't much of a debate for a atheist. [[User:MAnderson|MAnderson]] 22:37, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

No, I myself do not believe that we have a soul. For me, your consciousness is simply a function of millions of years of chance and random wiring in your brain - picking the good features that made your ancestors more intelligent, leaving the less intelligent ones to set fire to themselves or however stone age man killed himself through his own stupidity. Your ancestors bred, passed on their better intelligence, etc. etc. until one day you were born self-aware. That self-awareness is just the result of random wiring, and when you die, nothing will seperate from your body and go to an afterlife. All that will happen is that all those electrical pulses that accidentally happen to give you self-awareness, along with those that tell your heart to keep beating and your diaphragm to keep pulling at your lungs, will stop firing. Nothing else will change - it'd be just like flicking off a lightswitch.

I've been asked how I can possibly sleep at night, thinking that my existance is bound to be short and, should I die during my sleep, I simply won't exist anymore. This doesn't trouble me because hey, I won't care that I'm dead, because I'll be dead. Yes, I'd really like to keep living, but once I'm dead it really won't bother me. If I had an aftelife to go to, I'd miss everything I left behind on Earth. So as far as I'm concerned, nothing leaves your body when you die - all of your consciousness is still there, in the same way your contacts stay on your phone after you've turned it off. Except you can't turn a human back on again.

Yes, it's depressing, but my conscience tells me that it must be so - I can't lie to myself and believe in heaven or a soul. If Christians are right (out of the countless religions on Earth, if Christianity turns out to be the correct religion) then I'm sure an all-forgiving, benevolent God will see that I've led a life free of major sins and have always striven to do what I believe to be right. Why would he punish me for falling for the traps that, by all rights, he put there for me, like all those pesky fossils? [[User:LibAsCanBe|LibAsCanBe]] 18:53, 24 September 2008 (EDT)

Debate: Do Atheist believe they have a soul?

2008-09-24T22:53:15Z

LibAsCanBe: