I have cogitated the arguments that Donnie makes at length, and to me it boils down to one fact: who do you hate most in this world? It may not be immediately apparent, but it’s generally true: rich kids. Everything is handed to them and their stupid choices rarely have consequences, yet whenever something doesn’t go their way they bitch and moan like they’re being deprived of food and water. That’s basically what you seem to want America to become: a nation of rich kids — the less productive they are (and/or the louder they bitch), the more goodies they get, and the more productive they are, they more is taken from them to support the every want and need of the rich kids.

Personally, I want people to grow up into responsible adults who want to support themselves. Every time the safety net under us is reinforced, though, we devolve a little further toward the attitude of the rich kids. We get people declaring that their right to a nice house, elective healthcare, cars, and childcare is being infringed upon. Well, sorry, but we have three rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Everything else is simply taking money from someone who earned it and giving it to someone who didn’t earn it. If you want to give them money for birth control pills, a house and a baby sitter, feel free, but don’t make everybody do it.

It’s the same sort of half-baked logic that gets people all up in arms with the we don’t want sex education in our schools, birth control is wrong, abortion is immoral, abstinence only! But when teen-agers start spitting out kids at record pace, they certainly don’t think they should be burdened with having to pay for them. It’s like they’re doing their own version of the Underpants Gnomes model: Step 1) No birth control! … Step 3) Heaven.

That is exactly the reason I want to read a book from you. You take a topic, possibly important, and interesting as information, but mainly just dull and very boring, and actually manage to write about it in an ENTARTAINING fashion.

(I dont mean the whole Topic of the “slut” thing, which of course is kinda catchy, but the topic, of what style some guy on some blog writes in.)

The song of ice and fire thought me, that the good writers dont just come up with cool stories, but rather they have the ability to write about everday occurrences, such as hearings, cooking, managing the food stock of a stronghold, beeing sick on a ship… etc. with the same amount of entartainment value as about swordfights and battles.

Anyways, i’ve been quoteing you steadily the past 8-10 years on semi political topics, but I still have hopes for a fantasy book in the future.