Seen in a couple of places...

[eisoj5]

Abortion? yes
Death Penalty? no
Prostitution?no
Alcohol?yes
Marijuana? yes
Other drugs?no
Gay marriage?yes
Illegal immigrants?yes
Smoking?no
Drunk driving? no
Cloning? yes
Racism? no
Premarital sex? yes
Religion?no
The war in Iraq?no
Downloading music?yes
The legal drinking age? no
Porn? yes
Suicide? no


These are flippant answers for a reason. How can there be such a thoughtless meme out there? It doesn't give you any instructions, although they are implicit. It reduces complex issues to one-word free-association type questions. "Drunk driving?" As thegwenabe said, What. The. Fuck. Does this mean that the original creator of the meme posits there are people who are FOR drunk driving?

Since I like to talk (and don't want to work on my paper), here are my real answers.

Abortion? I am pro-choice in principle but pro-life for myself. Considering that most pregnancies naturally abort before the woman even knows she's pregnant, I wouldn't want to take the chance that I wouldn't get another chance. I have no reason to believe that I'm not as fertile as a bunny, but given the vagaries of my body thus far...In principle, however, I don't believe that anyone or any agency besides myself has the right to make this decision.
Death Penalty? Against. I don't believe in "an eye for an eye". In addition, what kind of psych major would I be if I thought that people couldn't change (or be changed)?
Prostitution? I think that if prostitution is conducted in an empowering manner, where it's not some sort of pimp-ho relationship but women making the decision to engage in the world's oldest profession by themselves, it's not so terrible. If we didn't have such Puritanical values about sex, either, I think it would be less degrading/disgusting/etc.
Alcohol? Not for me, thanks. (Anemia, woo!) But in moderation for everyone else, sure.
Marijuana? Again, not for me; it smells nasty and I really don't like putting stuff in my lungs beyond inhaler-y type things. For medical purposes, fine (if it's been scientifically proven). As far as I know, researchers don't really know exactly what it does to you, either...I don't think doing a lot of it over time is a good way to find out :-P
Other drugs? Gah. (Assuming this refers to those substances which can be abused.) I prefer my brain cells intact, thank you. I think that if more people were educated on the physical effects of other drugs, there'd be less of a problem. (But then again, maybe not.)
Gay marriage? Yes. I think I've made that pretty clear :-P
Illegal immigrants? (Another flippant answer: I think we should be glad at least some people still think the US is great...) As a source of cheap labor, I think it won't go away. Businesses have to make it clear that they adhere to standards and won't hire anyone off the street. However, when Europeans first showed up here, they didn't carry visas and passports either...
Smoking?No. Not for me, and if I had my way, not for anyone else, either. I like my air smoke-free, thanks.
Drunk driving? Um. No fucking duh.
Cloning? Yes, in the interest of science, of course. I don't really consider cloning humans to be a threat; the success rate is pretty low right now. And, if in the future it becomes possible to reduce the failure rate, I don't see that people are going to rush out and demand copies of themselves. We pride ourselves on our uniqueness, or at least I think we do, as a species...
Racism? No.
Premarital sex? Yes! :D
Religion? Not for myself. I understand that people have always generated belief systems for themselves; I don't think that it should be imposed upon others.
The war in Iraq? No. The motives for war were suspect in the beginning (WMDs? What WMDs? Also, highly inappropriate for Bush to joke about that, either) and while the removal of Saddam Hussein from power was good, what's happening now because there was no clear plan for after the war is BAD.
Downloading music? My, this meme does jump around, topic wise. I'm for it.
The legal drinking age? If we got rid of the legal drinking age, would that remove the problem of binge-related deaths when people turned 21? I think it just might. If it's part of your life in moderation already, you're not going to be out getting trashed quite so often, methinks.
Porn? Yes. Better to have an artificial, fantasy outlet, than to do it in real life.
Suicide? Not for me, thanks. I don't really know what else I want to say about it.