Post 8

Personal Opinions

Dear all, for this eight post session we won't have one topic to develop. 
This time you will choose only 4 from the following list of questions:

What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?

What is your opinion about water scarcity?
What is your opinion about "vertical ghettos"?
What is your opinion about the Chilean traditions?
What is your opinion about cloning?

What is your opinion about recycling?

What is your opinion about the US, Chilean, Argentine, and Brazilian far right governments and how they will impact our neighboring countries?

What is your opinion about “barras bravas” (hooligans)?

What is your opinion about legalizing abortion in all cases?
What is your opinion about obstetric violence?

What is your opinion about contraception?
What is your opinion about owning an exotic pet?

What is your opinion about the military? 
What is your opinion about child labor?

What is your opinion about television?

What is your opinion about tatoos?
What is your opinion about banks?

What is your opinion about current controversial events? (give one example)

And you will write a short text giving your opinion about the chosen questions. (60 words per answer)

Here's a couple of my answers:

What is your opinion about contraceptive methods?

I believe it is very important for human beings to experience pleasure, and sex is a great source of it, we've done it since we were literally monkeys, so it's a big deal that we can have intercourse without ugly consecuences such as STDs (sexually transmitted deseases) and more importantly, unplanned pregnancies which can impact many people's lives.
To avoid getting pregnant, our freemarket society offers many methods, most of them though, are focused on women only. Pills, hormones, patches, implants, etc. Most of these methods imply a direct responsibility on women and it's my understanding that this issue concerns both sexual partners, so I think these methods should evolve and be more in tune with the way things are now.

What is your opinion about the military? 


In general, I believe they're obsolete. I'm not saying they shouldn't exist, I just think the military-industrial complex is a very perverse force in our current society. A monster that feeds on war, death and destruction of what's left of our world. In an ideal world, they'll only act as helpers in natural catastrophies and whenever help was needed in terms of preserving life in our planet, but hey, I bet that's too much of a dream these days. 

- Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts + a comment on mine.
- Number of words: 240 minimum.