If you could change a single public policy, what exactly would you change?

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WolfBear

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For me, I would aim to make our child support laws fairer, but since that's unrealistic, I'd aim to legally require health insurance to fully cover the cost of a bilateral epididymectomy for sterilization purposes for any male who wants one. A bilateral epididymectomy removes the epididymis, which is the tube responsible for sperm maturation, on both sides of a man's body. I think that since women already have bilateral salpingectomy fully covered by their health insurance for sterilization purposes, men should be compensated for this by having bilateral epididymectomy fully covered by their health insurance for sterilization purposes as well.

My second item of preference would be to teach American Renaissance in any public school where Critical Race Theory is already being taught. That way, students themselves would get to both compare and contrast both of these sources and see what exactly the most likely explanation for continuing racial disparities in the US actually are. But again, this is my second item of preference, after the item mentioned in the paragraph right above this one.
 
Cherico said:
End the war on drugs.
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This ...

Drug addicts don't deserve prison. They need rehab. They people offer and push the drugs, OTOH, deserve to be made examples of.

Unfortunately it's much easier to catch and prosecute a gal pulling a rock out of her nether regions because she needs a hit of "something hard" than it is to catch a drug lord living in a foreign country who is protected by a paramilitary.
 
bintananth said:
This ...

Drug addicts don't deserve prison. They need rehab. They people offer and push the drugs, OTOH, deserve to be made examples of.

Unfortunately it's much easier to catch and prosecute a gal pulling a rock out of her nether regions because she needs a hit of "something hard" than it is to catch a drug lord living in a foreign country who is protected by a paramilitary.
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I have a middle ground approach to this, because I've seen it work, and save people's lives.

I used to be all about decriminalization. I'm now more about diversion programs.

Complete the program, charges get dropped.

Some of these people need to be pretty much forced into it, and the inventive of getting charges dropped gets them in there. That gives people a chance to finally get through to them.

It was an addict friend who changed my mind on this. She is adamant that she would not be with us today if it wasn't for they program, and she'd have never done the rehab if it wasn't due to the felony hanging over her head.

Today she's a successful woman and has been clean for many years and has no criminal record that background checks can ever see.

I'm an ex addict myself (alcohol, cocaine, mdma and prescription pain killers,) and I am not for full decriminalization.
 
Rocinante said:
I have a middle ground approach to this, because I've seen it work, and save people's lives.

I used to be all about decriminalization. I'm now more about diversion programs.

Complete the program, charges get dropped.

Some of these people need to be pretty much forced into it, and the inventive of getting charges dropped gets them in there. That gives people a chance to finally get through to them.

It was an addict friend who changed my mind on this. She is adamant that she would not be with us today if it wasn't for they program, and she'd have never done the rehab if it wasn't due to the felony hanging over her head.

Today she's a successful woman and has been clean for many years and has no criminal record that background checks can ever see.

I'm an ex addict myself (alcohol, cocaine, mdma and prescription pain killers,) and I am not for full decriminalization.
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Addiction is a disease, it is not a crime. Treating it as a crime is why we have BS like the War on Drugs.

Good on you and your friend for overcoming addicttions. I have not overcome my tobacco addiction and probably never will. While I was recovering from the amputation of my big left toe the rehab facility let me go outside and smoke cigars unsupervised during the daytime hours when I wasn't hooked up to an IV provided I didn't light up while standing on the SNF property or bring the tobacco and lighter into the building.

Going out to smoke a cigar across the street was way more exercise than the rehab plan.
 
bintananth said:
This ...

Drug addicts don't deserve prison. They need rehab. They people offer and push the drugs, OTOH, deserve to be made examples of.

Unfortunately it's much easier to catch and prosecute a gal pulling a rock out of her nether regions because she needs a hit of "something hard" than it is to catch a drug lord living in a foreign country who is protected by a paramilitary.
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I'm more of the opinion that the war on drugs has been an expensive waste of time and resources that has created violent black markets that cause much of the murder in american cities, gives way too much power to law enforceement and has helped corrupt politics both here in the us and in the countries that supply them.
 
All taxes, duties, levies, tithes, property seizures and other methods by which the government does (or can) compulsively take away money or property from anyone are forever and universally banned, and all contributions to any form of government (whether it's called that or not) are to be 100% voluntary on the part of each individual person who contributes.


There, that should eliminate the greatest evil on the planet quite nicely. You want a governing body? Start a club, and find people willing to join. You never get to force anyone to join your club ever again.
 
bintananth said:
Addiction is a disease, it is not a crime. Treating it as a crime is why we have BS like the War on Drugs.

Good on you and your friend for overcoming addicttions. I have not overcome my tobacco addiction and probably never will. While I was recovering from the amputation of my big left toe the rehab facility let me go outside and smoke cigars unsupervised during the daytime hours when I wasn't hooked up to an IV provided I didn't light up while standing on the SNF property or bring the tobacco and lighter into the building.

Going out to smoke a cigar across the street was way more exercise than the rehab plan.
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Addiction is a disease, often brought on by committing a crime. Likewise many crimes committed are a result of the addicted brain leading people down the wrong paths in life.

I don't think we should be locking up all the addicts, but we should be giving them strong incentives to get into recovery, and that's the purpose of a diversion program. Under the diversion plan i envision, they don't have to be locked up unless they choose to be.

And I'd support multiple chances to go onto the diversion program and chances to fuck it up, too. But without the incentive, many, many people aren't going to go into rehab programs.

You have to want to change to recover, but sometimes that requires being "forced" into sobriety long enough to clear your head and be exposed to other sober people, educated, and shown a path.

Access to therapy and rehab would need to be drastically expanded, and I support that as well.
 
Rocinante said:
Addiction is a disease, often brought on by committing a crime. Likewise many crimes committed are a result of the addicted brain leading people down the wrong paths in life.

I don't think we should be locking up all the addicts, but we should be giving them strong incentives to get into recovery, and that's the purpose of a diversion program. Under the diversion plan i envision, they don't have to be locked up unless they choose to be.

And I'd support multiple chances to go onto the diversion program and chances to fuck it up, too. But without the incentive, many, many people aren't going to go into rehab programs.

You have to want to change to recover, but sometimes that requires being "forced" into sobriety long enough to clear your head and be exposed to other sober people, educated, and shown a path.

Access to therapy and rehab would need to be drastically expanded, and I support that as well.
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We all have our demons and Lucifer is God's best angel. His entire job is to goad you into doing something you're not supposed to do so that you can serve as a warning to others: "I wouldn't do that if I was you".

As for addiction? It's not the result of committing a crime. It's often "I feel like shit and doing this makes me feel better." It also doesn't have to be something illegal for it to be an addiction.

Fr'ex: My youngest sis will not let go of the remnants of the blanket our grandmothers crocheted for our eldest two sisters when they were infants and still sucks her thumb. She plays with stuff so dangerous that setting liquid nitrogen on fire is an "oopsie".
 
bintananth said:
We all have our demons and Lucifer is God's best angel. His entire job is to goad you into doing something you're not supposed to do so that you can serve as a warning to others: "I wouldn't do that if I was you".

As for addiction? It's not the result of committing a crime. It's often "I feel like shit and doing this makes me feel better." It also doesn't have to be something illegal for it to be an addiction.

Fr'ex: My youngest sis will not let go of the remnants of the blanket our grandmothers crocheted for our eldest two sisters when they were infants and still sucks her thumb. She plays with stuff so dangerous that setting liquid nitrogen on fire is an "oopsie".
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I used the qualifier "often," for a reason.

My alcohol addiction required nothing illegal, for example.
 
A Public Policy?

Since women/females have historically had more reproductive rights (giving a baby up for adoption counts and that's as old as history, and abortions have been going on for at least 6,000 years, allowing women to abrogate their responsibilities as a mother and this has continued into the modern age where the men's equivalent has only ever been 'ignore it') I would like to see men receive the right to abrogate their responsibility as a parent.

I think it'd cut down on a significant number of issues, not the least of which is forcing men to pay child support for children that aren't theirs when that fact is the whole reason for the split. If he chooses to support the child, that's different.

As that's very unrealistic, I think that fathers should be give first whack at adopting their own children. I feel that it's incredibly soulless to deny fathers who want to be fathers just because mothers don't want to be known as mothers.
 
Skitzyfrenic said:
A Public Policy?

Since women/females have historically had more reproductive rights (giving a baby up for adoption counts and that's as old as history, and abortions have been going on for at least 6,000 years, allowing women to abrogate their responsibilities as a mother and this has continued into the modern age where the men's equivalent has only ever been 'ignore it') I would like to see men receive the right to abrogate their responsibility as a parent.

I think it'd cut down on a significant number of issues, not the least of which is forcing men to pay child support for children that aren't theirs when that fact is the whole reason for the split. If he chooses to support the child, that's different.

As that's very unrealistic, I think that fathers should be give first whack at adopting their own children. I feel that it's incredibly soulless to deny fathers who want to be fathers just because mothers don't want to be known as mothers.
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If a woman says something like "I don't know, it was just a random fling" like my grandmothers did when my parents were born you'd need a paternity test to figure out who "daddy" actually is because no man can know for certain if the child is actually his without a paternity test.

When it comes to stepdads and adoptive parents:



This is also why eastern and asian nobility often would only allow eunuchs of the "it all got chopped off" variety and females to be alone with a noblewan who wasn't his mother, sister, wife, or daughter.
 
Rocinante said:
There is a lot wrong in this country.

But I'd require voter ID nationwide.

Doesn't need to be a national ID. State ID can do just fine. But no voting without ID.
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Give every US citizen easy access to an ID, then.

Skitzyfrenic said:
A Public Policy?

Since women/females have historically had more reproductive rights (giving a baby up for adoption counts and that's as old as history, and abortions have been going on for at least 6,000 years, allowing women to abrogate their responsibilities as a mother and this has continued into the modern age where the men's equivalent has only ever been 'ignore it') I would like to see men receive the right to abrogate their responsibility as a parent.

I think it'd cut down on a significant number of issues, not the least of which is forcing men to pay child support for children that aren't theirs when that fact is the whole reason for the split. If he chooses to support the child, that's different.

As that's very unrealistic, I think that fathers should be give first whack at adopting their own children. I feel that it's incredibly soulless to deny fathers who want to be fathers just because mothers don't want to be known as mothers.
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AFAIK, there is the option to disestablish paternity for married men if done within a particular period of time.

Cherico said:
End the war on drugs.
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Does that include the dealers or only the consumers? Because I'm very fine with not prosecuting the consumers, who need treatment above everything else.
 
WolfBear said:
Give every US citizen easy access to an ID, then.



AFAIK, there is the option to disestablish paternity for married men if done within a particular period of time.



Does that include the dealers or only the consumers? Because I'm very fine with not prosecuting the consumers, who need treatment above everything else.
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You cant control a black market.

A part of legalizing the process is that a lot of the dealers would be replaced by small business's and some companies. A lot of dealers would thus be put out of work or forced to go legit. I'm not saying there wont be downsides to this. There will be downsides I just think the war on drugs has done a lot more damage then legal drugs would have done.

Basically I see it as picking the least shit option.
 
Prosecute abortion as murder and material support as conspiracy to commit. It's been a litmus test for the left for so long that even a conviction rate in the teens would change the political demographics in ways that would lead to nearly all of the other issues being fixed.

Laws against murder have been on the books as long as the nation has had laws and there's ample precedent for filing two murder or manslaughter charges when a fetus is harmed in a crime or accident against a pregnant woman so it doesn't require any legal change and thus isn't an ex post facto law. It's just ending the malicious non-enforcement of laws that already exist.
 
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