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It's just a precedent thing, really. The court also ruled there was a religious right to be a plaguerat last year, so it's really just because vaccination was invented before 1950.

The usual "stick it in a mine" CCS is a terrible idea. You get a breach there and a high pressure wave of concentrated CO2 will smother the surface around the breach. The radius depends on the size of the breach and the amount stored. There are lakes where a similar phenomena happens naturally on rare occasions, and it's absurdly deadly.

CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will drop on its own via sunlight destruction if we just stop emitting. Global forestry and sunlight are constantly destroying massive amounts of CO2 and life on this planet wouldn't be the way it is otherwise.

Biomass sequestration is fine, but underground sequestration is a blue sky idea in the same vein as hydrogen cell cars and atmosphere sulfate seeding.

As strange as the question sounds, how bad would becoming a one party system be for the democracy of the US, if at all? Is it any easier to ”legislate” away intra-party fptp, creating a democratic environment within the party, than to legislate away inter-party fptp?

Under US law as is? There's zero guarantee of free elections within party organizations - they're technically entirely private and not subject to any election law whatsoever. There is some guarantee of at least nominally free and fair public elections, though notably no constitutional recognition of the existence of party organizations or their influence on the system.

Courts or no courts, encouraging vigilantes will create them. Abortion clinics need armed security.

Isn't influenza always zoonotic?

For Christians, I would expect some kind of lazy transposition from the arguments against it on the basis that it isn't kosher or halal. I have no idea if it really is either of those things, but I suspect some significant portion of people from all three Abrahamic corners will object no matter what the material or theological basis. If all else fails, just declare it "unnatural" and stick to that position.

What I think will really be interesting is seeing if vegetarian Buddhists, Hindus, and Jains accept it or not. Jains technically abstain from meat on the basis that it comes from violence, which seems untenable for cell cultures. But I suppose if you avoid even swatting a gnat, you might want to avoid destroying the cells of an animal.

There's a beholder variant with neutral alignment ("Observers"), but the situation here is almost certainly just more of "we were friends". Don't do paladin logic kids, it'll rot your brain!

GALLUP MORAL ACCEPTABILITY POLL 2021 HAS COME TO

As per my post last year, the results by year will be '14, '17, '20, and now '21 with the change between them in parentheses. A few questions from last year were not continued. Please note that the new question on gender is using Gallup's own wording, which I find somewhat ambiguous. The wording of the question on polygamy remains the same as last year, in spite of Gallup itself publishing an article questioning it.

Percentage saying the following are morally acceptable:

Birth Control: 90%, 91%, 90%, 90% (+0%)
Alcohol Use: - , -, 86%, - (-)
Divorce: 69%, 73%, 77%, 79% (+10%)
Sex, Unmarried: 66%, 69%, 73%, 73% (+7%)
Marijuana Use: -, -, 70%, - (-)
Sex, Gay: 58%, 63%, 66%, 69% (+11%)
Gambling: -, 65%, 71%, 72%, 68% (+3%)
Children Outside Of Marriage: 58%, 62%, 66%, 67% (+9%)
Embryonic Stem Cell Research: 65%, 61%, 66%, 64%  (-1%)
Death Penalty: 60%, 58%, 54%, 55% (-5%)
Animal Fur Clothing: 58%, 57%, 54%, 55% (-3%)
Doctor-Assisted Suicide: 52%, 57%, 51%, 54% (+2%)
Animal Medical Testing: -, 51%, 56%, 52% (+1%)
Abortion: 42%, 43%, 44%, 47% (+5%)
Gender Change: -, -, -, 46% (-)
Sex, Between Teenagers: 30%, 36%, 38%, 43% (+13%)
Pornography: 33%, 36%, 36%, 40% (+7%)
Cloning Animals: 34%, 32%, 34%, 36% (+2%)
Polygamy: 14%, 17%, 20%, 20% (+6%)
Suicide: 19%, 18%, 18%, 19% (+0%)
Cloning Humans: 13%, 14%, 12%, 13% (+0%)
Extramarital Affairs: 7%, 9%, 9%, 10% (+3%)


Last year, I predicted the beatings would continue vis-a-vis the religious right and sexual morality, and even this quickly the bruising shows. Gay sex, abortion, divorce, having children outside of marriage, pornography, and even sex between teenagers have shown more increases than almost everything else on this list. Something something boomerfall, you get the idea.

The fall in the death penalty appears to have leveled off. Approval of animal medical testing has fallen to its previous number.

Polygamy has kept its hard-won few points of approval. As mentioned above, abortion has continued its steady increase in approval.

When it comes to differences between libs and conservatives, the new metric on changing gender unbelievably has managed to edge out abortion by a single point, representing a 55% difference between the groups. Ironically, liberals and conservatives have the same most hated and most approved of issues. Both most hate extramarital affairs (6% for conservatives, 18% for liberals) and most approve of birth control (83% for conservatives, 95% for liberals).