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...easy. Moreover, these initiatives create a false binary on issues that are often multifaceted. Facts become the first casualties, and complexities in the issues also disappear. Unlike the California Legislature, which can debate and amend bills, the public is forced to decide whether the benefits in the proposition significantly outweigh the flaws. Discussion and debate get replaced by simplistic, up-or-down voting...
...like the ones the opposition French Socialists are fighting tooth and nail in Paris. "Political groups will increasingly act as real European parties," says Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, a researcher at Belgium's Royal Institute for International Relations. "But let's not be too naive. National interests will still outweigh political color on essential issues." Indeed, in a new Time/cnn poll, 70% of those surveyed in Britain, France and Germany said that the incoming Commissioners are more likely to work in the interests of their home countries than in the interests of the E.U. as a whole...
...just why we're here in the first place. If a God or even several gods can do all that, fine. And if we sometimes misuse the idea of our gods--and millenniums of holy wars prove that we do--the benefits of being a spiritual species will surely outweigh the bloodshed...
Still, I happen to agree with Rogers that there should be a sense of loyalty to the similarly disenfranchised, even though I despise his tactics. And even if the privileges of certain identities (wealthy, white, powerful) outweigh the drawbacks of others (gay), it is the responsibility of the relatively privileged to act mindful of those...
...your opinion, does the pleasure of dreaming outweigh the disappointment of reality? Do you ever prefer fantasy to the truth...