This isn’t getting the “On Changing Opinions” tag of my last few posts because, well, it isn’t a new opinion. In fact in this post I’m not even going to spend time on my actual opinion, which is that immigration shouldn’t be illegal at all. Alas, that’s not likely to happen. So instead, I want… Read More »
Over a year ago, I wrote a post about the process of opinion-changing. At the time, I intended to follow up with a series of posts about specific things I had changed my opinion on for various reasons. I never ended up writing any of them, mostly out of laziness. Well, now I’m writing about… Read More »
I almost always see pro-abortion arguments framed in terms of the rights and desires of the mother. The argument is essentially that a woman should be allowed to have an abortion because it’s her body and she should have exclusive control over her body. But at what point during pregnancy does a baby get its… Read More »
A few minutes ago, I read a comment that said, “a woman who wants to abort a child will find a way even if it’s in back alleys.” She didn’t outright say it, but she seemed to be arguing that it’s not worth going to the effort of making abortion illegal, because people will do… Read More »
I recently read an opinion article on CNN.com by Jeremy Shane, and I had a few thoughts to share. Shane basically says that it would be great if guns were smart enough to refuse to fire when they shouldn’t be fired (like at a group of children). One of the things I’ve been training my… Read More »