No question too personal eh? Ok, when did you first, if ever, have sex? And, what is your view on the current state of the CC Forums?
I'll let you come to your own conclusions on the first one. As for your second question, I think I've already touched on that subject in this thread.
I'd like to advance my own interests by asking about your position on the death penalty, American imperialism, and eugenics.
While I think it should be applied more sparingly than it is, and with an even greater burden of proof in every case, I am in favor of the death penalty. Actually, what I'm
not in favor of is life in prison without the possibility of parole. To me that seems the crueler fate.
American imperialism is a buzz phrase of the left. I don't buy it. I'd buy hegemonic, though. In previous years I thought it was a good thing that America led the world, but more recently I have come to learn just how dangerous that is when a bad government is in power. I also think the American people on the whole have become too conceited and laden with feelings of superiority and entitlement that are not justified, leading me to wonder whether or not our hegemony is a good thing even under a good government. America is not the same country it was fifty years ago, and I'm still trying to figure out what that means, exactly.
As for eugenics--which is a policy of selective breeding based upon genes or traits--it's a nonstarter. It's a scare word. It's like asking a person how they feel about Nazism. Who would want to waste energy on discussing such an emotionally loaded concept? Having said that, I would note that we selectively breed thousands of species already--to useful effect. The distinction most people would make is that every other species on Earth is a resource (an arrogant premise), whereas humans are an end product (wishful thinking). That isn't true, which by itself makes eugenics a wide open question: Can it be used for human good? However, that isn't the only egg in the batter. There is also the issue of how much of our intrinsic "humanity" can be limited purely to genetic makeup, to the exclusion of environmental circumstances--and that's a tough cookie. I would imagine that, except for people who carry genes that make it likely their kids would be born sick or handicapped, we
can't split up nature and nurture in the human equation, which means that any policy which treats only one and not the other, is not going to work well.
Medical doctors already do terminate a number of pregnancies where the child is grossly deformed or will be very ill in life. Many individuals who have debilitating diseases have sterilized themselves so as to prevent reproduction. And all of that has its place in a grander framework of good medical policy: When is it medically responsible to allow a person to have a kid? But I would also prefer a concurrent social policy that addresses the other question: When is it socially responsible to allow a person to have a kid?
Finally, all of this has to be balanced against civil liberty--which, to put it pragmatically, is our license to mess up, make bad choices, screw around, be less than our potential, and fail. If eugenic policies were made on the assumption of ideal people and ideal children, it would be tyranny all over again. People have to be free to mess up, at least to some extent, and we have to factor that into our social engineering.
On the whole, it makes me think that eugenics is not a good idea at this time, given the incompetence of government and the lack of supporting social policy. But I am not opposed to it fundamentally, provided that it is considered in the larger context of human wellbeing as I have laid out.
Me wanna ask too!!11!
1st: You sometimes dropped that you have a girlfriend. Are you still together? How have you meet?(a bit romance, please 
because I love real life stories like that)
2nd: What do you think about Germany?(Wooo, what a lame one) And please, don't say we have no humor...it's not funny anymore when Americans and Brittains explain every joke towards us because they don#t think we understand them...because it's fun...and we have one...
I know this is a wide question, so just write about what comes into you mind first
(and for info, but I'm sure you already know: Nazis don't exist anymore, nowhere, because I'm sick of hearing how we are all Nazis, even though they don't exist any more...some ex-Nazis are still living thou)
I haven't spoken here on the Compendium about my romantic life because it is neither here nor there. It isn't responsible for me to drag friends and love interests into my own affairs here or elsewhere, and any forum populated mostly by immature young men is definitely not a worthwhile place to talk about these sorts of things. But, yes, I do have a girlfriend. We met a while back, on Craigslist of all places! She is a nice person.
As for Germany, well...what do I think? I wonder quite a bit about reunification, and whether it is fully complete or still ongoing--and, if so, how. I wonder about the German economy, because Europe's economies are not well-represented in United States news media, and I feel poorly informed on that interesting subject. I also wonder about German culture, and what sorts of things define "Germanness" in the cultural sense. Here in America the stereotype is fast freeways, good beer, and loud dance music. But those sorts of stereotypes aren't worth much to me, and so I remain in the dark.
Germany has an astonishing legacy of industrial prowess, mechanical and artistic brilliance, and cultural progress. Indeed, Germany got ahead of itself so badly that we had a world war. Then the German people produced a savior who caused another world war. At that point the Germans suffered the indignity of fifty years of separation, and have since emerged as...what? Hopefully a better people, but that's for you to say more so than me.
Indeed, you should have asked me about America, and I should ask you about Germany. But, there you have it. My opinion on the Germans is that they are one of Europe's finest.
P.S. nice to meet you Lord J esq
Thanks!
Can you explain the event when an electron "splits", I guess is the right word, during super positioning?
If I understand you correctly, nope, I'd have to look it up. I am familiar with the concept, but not well enough to teach anybody about it. Here's a link:
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/QPAQC.php
