The Controversial Survey

[vovat]

I got this from pixielust:

[01] Do you have the guts to answer these questions and re-post as The Controversial Survey?
I don't see what my intestines have to do with it.

[02] Would you do meth if it was legalized?
No way. That stuff will really mess you up, from what I've heard.

[03] Abortion: for or against it?
I think it's sometimes the most viable option, which is why I'm pro-choice. It's better if it never has to come to that, of course, but the world does not need more unwanted children.

[04] Do you think the world would fail with a female president?
Of course not. Other countries have had female chief executives, and they didn't go down the tubes because the leader spent the treasury on makeup. The United States is kind of behind the times in this respect. That said, the woman who's currently closest to being President is Palin, and I think the world probably WOULD fail with her at the helm of the nation.

[05] Do you believe in the death penalty?
I waffle on this. I'm not totally opposed to it, but I think it's usually unnecessary. And it's too easy to make a mistake.

[06] Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
Yeah, I think it should be.

[07] Are you for or against premarital sex?
Like the abortion question, this one is rather oddly phrased. I have no objection to premarital sex, as long as it's safe. But if you want to wait until marriage, that's okay with me.

[08] Do you believe in God?
No.

[09] Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
Definitely.

[10] Do you think it's wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA?
No, I don't really care. I can see that it would be preferable for these people to enter the country legally, but it doesn't particularly concern me.

[11] A twelve year old girl has a baby, should she keep it?
I don't think so.

[12] Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen?
Maybe.

[13] Should the war in Iraq be called off?
Yes.

[14] Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree?
No, I think it should be legal.

[15] Do you believe in spanking your children?
I'm generally not in favor of corporal punishment, but I don't think it's necessarily wrong if done sparingly.

[16] Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?
Maybe. What are the other stipulations? If I had to do it in front of the American Legion, I'd probably be too scared. I have no objections to flag-burning, though, aside from the fact that it's wasteful.

[17] Who do you think would make a better president? McCain or Obama?
Obama.

[18] Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
No, although I know people will disagree with some of them.


By the way, you know one thing I don't know that I'll ever understand? LJ users removing other people from their friends lists with no explanation. It's happened to me a few times, and I'm probably oversensitive about it. But I'm terrified of rejection, and that's part of why I usually won't add anyone to MY friends list unless they add me first, or we've had some prior back-and-forth commenting. If you have a problem with someone, why can't you just TELL them? And if it's a matter of not wanting people you don't really know to see certain posts (which I can totally understand), isn't that why custom groups were invented?

Comments

[colbyucb.livejournal.com]

In the past (like young teenage years, where I was a lot more neurotic and hormonal than I am now), I've removed people without telling them because I thought they didn't like me >.> Yeah it's weird since if they didn't, wouldn't they remove me first? Also my problems with confrontation which were especially bad at that age usually prevented me from approaching them about it.

As for doing it these days, it's usually when someone's journal hasn't been updated forever, and they haven't posted anything like "I'm going to be without internet/out of town/whatever for 6 months." And in that case, it's generally people I've never commented on/had comment on my journal anyway, or they added me for seemingly no reason, I added them back just because, but then their journal went dead with little discussion between us. People that I consider LJ friends are pretty much stuck on my flist though, whether they want to be or not heh.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

See, even though I get annoyed when people don't update, I don't see how it does any harm to leave them on the list.

[colbyucb.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is a girly thing then, because I notice the drive in female LJers more than guys to "clean up" their flist and remove inactive posters and such. I could be terribly wrong though, heh.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think everyone who's removed me from their list has been female, and it's more often girls who do the list clean-ups. So is there a connection between that and the second X chromosome? I really don't know.