RE: A Hypothetical Scenario
December 23, 2014 at 5:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2014 at 5:37 pm by Jenny A.)
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -Require that all USians learn Maori as a second language. Street signs and official documents printed in same.
Why? And if the reason is so that Americans might be more likely to learn a second language, I suspect there are better ways of going about it and more useful languages to learn.
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -Terminate all government employees with four or more words in their title. For example, 'Assistant Undersecretary, Commerce' could stay. 'Assistant Undersecretary, Bolivian Jockstrap Weaving', however, would have to clean out his desk.
So? You don't like specialization?
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -Ban celebrities (athletes, film stars, television personalities, fiction authors) from giving opinions on fields not their specialty, on pain of deportation. The next time Angelina Jolie starts banging on about the evils of nuclear power, she would have to go live in Zambia for a year.
Ah yes, no opinions unless we're experts, got it.
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -Ditto for people who take these celebrities seriously.
Not sure how to figure out if a person takes celebrity opinions seriously. I do understand thought crimes though. . .
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -All creationist organisations will be required to add '...And Clown College' to their official letterhead.
I do find this one amusing, but no, entertaining as it might be, no. But I would be in favor on anyone applying Dr., PHD, etc. to their name to add unaccredited to the title is that be the case.
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -CEOs who make more than 10 times the annual salary of their average employee will be required to live on the salary of their lowest paid employee for one year, and we all get to watch.
Can't imagine why. Really, I can't. I think the lowest paid worker should be adequately paid. And I think CEOs should be paid what they are worth not what their friends on the board of directors think they should, but the discrepancy from bottom to top doesn't bother me much.
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -Physicians and lawyers will be required to perform 500 pro bono hours work per year.
Either you think basic legal representation and basic medical care are a human right in which case society as a whole not doctors or lawyers should pay for it; or, you think doctors and lawyers having learned to provide a valuable service, should be punished for having learned it. Neither view makes much sense.
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -Parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated will be charged with child endangerment, their children will be vaccinated anyway.
YES
(December 23, 2014 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: -Ditto parents who refuse medical treatment for a child on religious or any other grounds.
Well, on religious grounds anyway. People often have good reasons for refusing medical treatment, and parents might also have good reasons for refusing the same treatment for their children.
All recreational drugs will be legal, taxed equally, and penalized equally for driving under the influence.
There shall be no religious tax exemptions whatsoever.
All children shall be taught comparative religion and skepticism.
World history including the last 100 years in the Middle East and Asia shall be taught in schools.
Creationism shall not just be banned, but laughed out of schools.
Evolutionary theory shall be a required subject in middle school and high school.
Immigration shall not be limited for persons who do no pose a physical threat to the nation and who can demonstrate either the ability to earn a living wage here or the ability to live here by other means
High School graduates should be required to meet some minimal national standards.
Corporations and other business entities should not be considered persons for the purposes of political speech.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
