Would it not make more sense for all governmental positions to be decided based upon a persons qualifications/intelligence/achievements in their field rather than an arbitrary popularity contest where the majority of the voters can barely understand the most basic political issues?

Can we not at least restrict people's right to vote based on intelligence?

I don't want my country's leaders to be decided by the pond scum of society.

http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/images/japan.png

i'm considering going to a university there and I wonder if I'll get pissed upon for being a dirty chinese.

Please support Korea!!

Korea was allied country with USA during WW2!!

Thanks to Korean support,USA could make victory over Japs!!

ALL American should not forget this fact!!

this applies more to weeaboos but can be extended to westerners in general.

example: faking of nanking

In my view, though, both of these arguments are sidestepping the real issue at the core of this whole business: whether you believe a foetus is a human life or not. Obviously most people - regardless of their political leanings - consider killing humans to be a generally bad thing, so it follows that if you don't think it's a human, you will be fine with abortion, and if you do think it's a human, you won't be.

But what constitutes a human being is a pretty abstract philosophical question; how is one's position on the political spectrum supposed to influence something like that? And yet it obviously does - people's views on abortion always seem to fall so neatly in line with their views on everything else. So maybe I just don't get it.