Will Wilkinson - Latest Comments in More Fun With Polls

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Leptin Supplement — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:41:23 -0000

I vote yes to the bonus button, many women are thinking of abortion min their own sake!! I hate those kind of women.

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Robert S. Porter — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:27:11 -0000

Well then post them, Nathan.

The private clincs you think you chaning the landscape of Canada are minor and the more widespread they become the more the public will turn against them.

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Nathan Scott — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:30:16 -0000

There are hundreds of articles. I remember reading one more than a year ago. Attacking the source is no less than a cop out.

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Robert S. Porter — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:45:50 -0000

Meh, that's CUPE and CUPE has never said an honest thing in its life.

Apparently there are few clincs in Canada, but I don't know of any meaningful ones in Saskatchewan. Indeed when a private MRI clinic (on a First Nations bands' land) was contemplated it was shouted down as heresy.

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Nathan Scott — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:23:27 -0000

http://cupe.ca/health-care/...

Just typing in "Canada private clinic" give you many links.

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webgrrl — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:49:52 -0000

hey don't think you know my position, big guy, without asking. i'd be willing to discuss stopping all electives at 12 weeks, if plan b cost only $1, could be bought anywhere, services were more widely available, and these ridiculous notification rules were all set aside. preserving the life of the mother is non-negotiable - pre-eclampsia happens - but otherwise i'm open.

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webgrrl — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:46:20 -0000

Why not? That's a fair description of what separates us from parrots and knuckle-walkin' chimps. I mean, don't get all high 'n mighty, we're just monkeys after all.

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Tim F — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:24:23 -0000

I couldn't get the poll to accept my votes. I answered "Ideological Self-Identification" as "Conservative and Libertarian". Answered no, for magic button one, and yes for magic button four.

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db — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:11:53 -0000

I got the same error message as LP. My response was similar to Brian 2, except on the last one. While a close call I probably would push the button on banning abortion for 1% gdp. For me it would really depend on how draconian the enforcement was. If its nominally illegal but still relatively easy and safe to get an abortion I would say yes, otherwise no.

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Batman — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:47:50 -0000

So an embryo goes from potentiality to actuality via the birth canal? Perhaps you need to bone up on the rigorous distinction between substantial change and accidental change.

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LP — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:16:36 -0000

Looks like the form is now turned off, according to the error message I just got.

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Brian 2 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:48:03 -0000

Really good questions. I voted yes on 1, but on further reflection I think I should reverse that, because losing the one vaguely capitalist health care system could easily cost a huge number of lives in delayed and foregone innovations. 2 is an obvious no, 3 was difficult but I voted yes because as noted above +1% forever is huge, certainly more than the net social benefit of handguns, and the decrease in personal freedom isn't *that* bad. The bonus button was even harder, and there I decided that the decrease in personal freedom was that bad, so no.

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amb — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:39:35 -0000

I voted yes on the bonus question, on the assumption that people would still be able to travel to other countries to get abortions.

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stephen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:33:35 -0000

the trade offs in this poll were so intense. i apparently don't care as much about the size of goobberment as much as i thought!

this changed my life. forever. or, until we get new buttons to push.

by the way, buttons definitely are the most superior of superior ways to actuate stuff.

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webgrrl — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:23:57 -0000

You jest.

Or maybe you think the fly girls should instead have the baby & marry the drug dealin' dawg baby-fathers who will soon be jailed, as I believe Kristol once argued? Is that really a great idea? Middle-class teens should just roll with it and incorporate an exotic Indian abortion-vacation with a nice visit to a yoga school in Kerala?

Teenaged underprivileged girls whose mothers have abusive boyfriends can really get a visa to India? They can afford to fly there? Do you live on any planet resembling Earth?

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Peter Twieg — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:19:04 -0000

Should we also use Socrates' definition of a human as a featherless biped while we're at it?

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Joe Strummer — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:16:24 -0000

Question 3 seemed the easiest to me - go for growth - but may be difficult for many people given that most people don't understand the compounding effects of growth. The difference between, say, 2 and 4 percent growth is the difference between Singapore and Argentina after 50 years.

I would've said "The U.S. and Argentina,", incidentally, but it's obvious that this financial crisis that we're in is going to render us as poor as Argentina.

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Joe Strummer — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:11:51 -0000

I think the point wasn't the constitutionality of it. That's beside the point. The point was purely as a thought experiment, which state of affairs would you want to live under.

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Christopher Monnier — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:54:08 -0000

The suspense is killing me...when are we going to see the results!?!

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odograph — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:28:10 -0000

I almost voted yes on the abortion-related, because anyone serious can fly to India.

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odograph — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:25:47 -0000

By "handguns" I assume we can buy repeating rifles, and the more dangerous pump shotguns. I don't own a Winchester, but have a cowboy self-image that it's all I'd need. I vote yes.

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webgrrl — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:12:14 -0000

May I politely request you consult Aristotle's Metaphysics to bone up on the rigorous difference between the "potential" and the "actual."

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Greg N. — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:34:00 -0000

No.

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Batman — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:43:05 -0000

As a libertarian, I had to ban abortion. After all, isn't the baby inside the womb entitled to liberty too?

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Vangel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:52:30 -0000

What a weird survey. No matter what choice a libertarian makes on any question s/he has to compromise on principles. That is not true for liberals or conservatives, who have choices that are in line with their principles.