You're insightful as always. Perhaps I should examine my motives for my views. On abortion, I'm 100% pro-life as a matter of logical consistency in upholding the life ethic. My absolute opposition to the death penalty and my opposition to most wars are based on the same ethic. I'm pro-immigrant both because I see immigration as economically beneficial to all concerned and because I don't want to see xenophobia written into law. I'm against affirmative action because I think it is counterproductive, but I support gay marriage and adoption because I think that only harmful lifestyles should have legally inferior status, and homosexuality isn't harmful. I'm against gun control because gun rights are vital to preventing the possibility of a totalitarian government. I support laws against drugs, prostitution and pornography primarily to make moral statements, since I realize those evils aren't going away. I consider any political censorship a road to tyranny, though.
On fiscal issues, I support cutting government spending by about 50% (albeit gradually), both because I oppose deficit spending as an unjust tax on future generations and because I think aid programs should be targeted to those who need them most by using block grants to efficient private charities. I also oppose guaranteed handouts such as Social Security and Medicare, but I support aiding the poor as a general rule. I tend to favor deregulation of business (for economic reasons) except on two issues. I support nationalizing arms production to prevent a profit motive for warfare, and for the same reason I support mandatory conversion to alternative energy, since I think that destructive and counterproductive American hawkishness in the Middle East is inevitable until we are independent of the region's energy. I'm against campaign finance reform on the grounds that it is basically a way for the current government to regulate the representation of the government in the future and thus is undemocratic. I also support moving towards a flat tax to eliminate disincentives, but I reluctantly support the minimum wage as a means of preventing unskilled workers from thinking that there is no point in seeking employment. Is there some common motive- perhaps even an unconscious one- that leads me to take these seemingly disparate stances?

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