30 day challenge - Number 18 - My beliefs
I have a three-pronged belief system:
I'm as much defined by what I don't believe as what I do believe so let's try this in list format.
- Justice
- Vengeance
- Killing the bastards
I'm as much defined by what I don't believe as what I do believe so let's try this in list format.
- I believe in fairness and equality before the law.
- I believe in the importance of education.
- I believe religion, or more specifically faith, are a massive, negative force upon human development.
- I believe in freedom of information and ideas.
- I believe that if you force a child into a particular belief system you are being abusive (ideological or religious).
- I believe that left-anarchism is the ideal for human existence.
- I believe that socialism is the best alternative in our current state.
- I believe this life is all we have.
- I believe in the philosophies of utilitarianism and epicureanism, I co-mingle them.
- I believe play and imagination are important.
- I believe wealth disparity is a blight upon the world.
- I believe in equal opportunities.
- I believe in equality regardless of race, gender etc...
- ...but I also believe I have the right to make fun of you for being pompous.
- I believe in a healthy, libertine outlook on sex, pornography, adult themes etc.
- I believe we should legalise drugs so that they can be controlled and honestly assessed.
- I believe friends are the new family.
- I believe logic, reason and evidence are the only sound bases upon which to proceed.
- I believe science represents the best of us.
- ...but so does art.
- I believe the death penalty is wrong.
- I believe abortion is fine.
- I believe war is a wasteful abomination, but is sometimes justified.
- I believe in the greater good.
- I believe in maximum freedom for the greatest number.
- I believe it when I 'see' it.
- I believe one man can make a difference but that many men can make a huge difference.
- I believe we're going to make it through peak oil and the energy crunch.
- I believe we should go back to the moon.
- I believe we should go to Mars.
- I believe we should inhabit the whole solar system.
- I believe we should reach for the stars.
- I believe I'm done...