(07-17-2020 08:52 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  Super busy day but top of my head: climate issues, gun control, women's right to choose, equality (race/LGBTQ, etc)

Climate - I favor accelerating the development of alternative energy sources as quickly as possible. But attempts by fiat to require elimination of fossil fuels before a suitable alternative is available will simply do far more to damage the economy than they will to mitigate climate change.

Gun control - I believe you linked an article talking about training and licensing gun users rather than focusing on guns. I agree with that approach, but that's not what I see any democrats talking about.

Abortion - I think masking it as "a woman's right to choose" is terribly dishonest and disingenuous. If you support choice, then you should support school choice and a whole bunch of other choices that democrats oppose. I believe that life begins at conception, and at that point the unborn acquires certain rights. The mother also has rights, and those rights trump those of the unborn up to a certain point. I would say that point is somewhere around the end of the first trimester, with later exceptions in cases of rape, health of the mother, or health of the unborn child. I do not support abortion at will up to the date of birth, which is what the New York law, for one, seems to license.

Equality - I firmly believe in equality of opportunity. That does not mean you manipulate things so that everybody ends up in the same place, nor does it mean that you describe any situation where that does not occur as inequality of opportunity.