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No Pardon For Turing
mikejuk writes "A petition signed by over 21,000 people asked the UK Government to grant a pardon to Alan Turing. That request has now been declined. A statement in the House of Lords explained the reasoning: 'A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence. He would have known that his offence was against the law and that he would be prosecuted. It is tragic that Alan Turing was convicted of an offence which now seems both cruel and absurd-particularly poignant given his outstanding contribution to the war effort. However, the law at the time required a prosecution and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times.'"
What they essentially mean is - "It was Turing's fault that he was born in those times apparently and there is nothing we can do about it. May his soul never rest in peace."
Sexuality, gay strait or bi, is biological and natural. No, the religious martyrs die because they suffer from a debilitating infectious mental illness otherwise known as faith. Once their minds are corrupted by that memetic vector, they no longer have true free will and are subject to the will of the memes that pass through the hive mind. Consumption of a single host is insignificant to the hive, and may even provide vectors for infection of new hosts.
You know you're on Slashdot when a post that claims homosexuality is biological and religious belief is a "debilitating infections mental illness" gets marked insightful, when there isn't very much good evidence for either remark. If someone were to post that both were choices, you'd get modded flamebait to oblivion.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Your opinion about what is and is not good child rearing is irrelevant, along with everyone elses. Regardless of how they are reared, those children ARE the human race, and they ARE the social fabric. Those who tend them are better attuned to the future than you are. Life is brutal sometimes.
It has nothing to do with prejudice against peoples sexual activities. I care nothing for who puts what in who's whatever, just like I don't care what sort of freaky shit married couples do in their spare time.
But I do think marriages should be annulled if they don't lead to childbirth inside of a reasonable window of time, 2-3 years perhaps, and marriage applications that will not cannot lead to childbirth should be denied.
I'd also like to see people who get divorced be forced to repay all the tax breaks they ever got as a consequence of their marriage.
All this romanticised bullshit that surrounds marriage is ridiculous. Marriage is a deal between two people and the rest of the community. You go make babies to wipe my ass when I'm old, and I'll subsidize your relationship. And please, do go make those babies, I make good money and can afford to subsidize quite a few of you.
Otherwise, go shack up and shut up, and don't bother asking for my vote, because I trust the guy who's got a genuine concern for the well being of his grandkids more than I do you. End of story.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth