Posted by
Greg England on Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:37:09 PM
The environment
All animals have rights
Unborn human beings do not have rights.
The environment would be better off without people.
It would be an environmental disaster if the polar bear became extinct.
When Margaret Thatcher closed down the coal mines, it was an act of class warfare.
When environmentalists try to close down coal fired power stations, it's an act of heroism.
Society
Marriage is an outdated institution for straight people.
Marriage is an absolute human right for gay people.
Religion
Fundamentalist Christians are dangerous.
If an act of violence is performed in the name of Islam, it is an insult to Islam.
All religious impulses are imaginary, and religion is a mental illness.
Consciousness is an emergent property of matter, and the self does not exist.
Good and evil do not exist.
Religious conservatives are bad people.
Economics
Life evolved from inanimate matter.
The economy must be intelligently designed.
Increases in industrial productivity are an exploitation of the worker.
Increases in energy efficiency are an environmental virtue.
When retail prices increase, it's because companies are exploiting the consumer.
When retail prices decrease, it's because companies are exploiting the worker.
Foreign policy
Trading with a nasty regime is unethical because it's only about profits.
Imposing economic sanctions on a nasty regime is unethical because it hurts the poor.
Making peace with a nasty regime is hypocrisy.
Making war with a nasty regime proves that conservatives are warmongers.
In the 20th Century, tens of millions died at the hands of national socialists and soviet socialists,
It is an act of political indecency to make any semantic connections.
Bill Ayers is irrelevant.
George Bush is a fascist.