1. fitness and diet: see above 2. sex life/love life: Unless you're married and only having sex with your husband, there are a variety of laws all over the country that could put you at risk of selective enforcement. Contraception, both its legality and availability, vary greatly, depending on government policies. So does the availability of STD testing, especially for people who don't have much money - and whether you're poor or insured or not, if any of the people you'd consider having sex with has had sex with anyone who had sex with anyone who... you get the point. STDs proliferate and put a damper on our sex lives.
Then again, I don't know you - maybe you are married to your first partner and are lifelong monogamous. In that case, though, consider that the main cause of marital strife (and divorce) seems to be financial strain, and government policies affect things like how many jobs there are, how well they pay, what other expenses you have, the value of your savings, and so on.
4. complex weather - subject to change if we don't start protecting the natural environment more seriously, and soon. I remember the first time I went to LA, 23 years ago - we drove in over the mountains, and saw basically a sea of dark smog, with some tall buildings poking out above it. They've done a lot to alleviate that since then, fortunately.
I don't see what this has to do with fanaticism, though. Nobody's trying to force you to be an activist. The fact is, however, that voting does affect those things, which you said it does not affect. If the answer is predictable, that implies you already knew that, in which case, why did you "take the bait"? *very puzzled*
No - you're the die-hard political activist, she isn't. :-)
And while I love a die-hard political activist as much as the next person, your journal has lately seemed to me to be bordering on the obsessive.
This post, for example, feels less like an entreaty to think about the importance of the voting process than an opportunity for you to prove how much smarter than everyone else you are. And while I really don't think that's what you intended with it, boy does it ever come off that way.
But I do like the idea and will post it in my own journal -- see if I can get something useful going.
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Date: 2004-10-04 07:59 pm (UTC)2. sex life/love life:
Unless you're married and only having sex with your husband, there are a variety of laws all over the country that could put you at risk of selective enforcement. Contraception, both its legality and availability, vary greatly, depending on government policies. So does the availability of STD testing, especially for people who don't have much money - and whether you're poor or insured or not, if any of the people you'd consider having sex with has had sex with anyone who had sex with anyone who... you get the point. STDs proliferate and put a damper on our sex lives.
Then again, I don't know you - maybe you are married to your first partner and are lifelong monogamous. In that case, though, consider that the main cause of marital strife (and divorce) seems to be financial strain, and government policies affect things like how many jobs there are, how well they pay, what other expenses you have, the value of your savings, and so on.
4. complex weather - subject to change if we don't start protecting the natural environment more seriously, and soon. I remember the first time I went to LA, 23 years ago - we drove in over the mountains, and saw basically a sea of dark smog, with some tall buildings poking out above it. They've done a lot to alleviate that since then, fortunately.
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Date: 2004-10-04 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-05 10:20 am (UTC)Wow.
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Date: 2004-10-05 11:21 am (UTC)And while I love a die-hard political activist as much as the next person, your journal has lately seemed to me to be bordering on the obsessive.
This post, for example, feels less like an entreaty to think about the importance of the voting process than an opportunity for you to prove how much smarter than everyone else you are. And while I really don't think that's what you intended with it, boy does it ever come off that way.
But I do like the idea and will post it in my own journal -- see if I can get something useful going.
*hugs*