An interlude of Health

Here, I have a little soap box and I am going to stand upon it.

I am afraid! You should be afraid too! Afraid that the Conservatives are using your emotions to scare you into action against something that is so beneficial to yourself and your family. The Conservatives are using the biological strength of your fear to be a pawn in their little game of contrariness!

You deserve the right to the public option of health care! Without this, you might find yourself in a position where you and your loved ones will not even get the option to live or die in a hospital bed; health care costs will be too much for your family to handle and the only option that you will have is to die! Here the government is your only friend and protection!

If you allow the Conservatives to command you such, if you allow the Conservatives to pull your strings like you are some sick marionette, then you will be allowing this country to fall into the hands of those like the Arabs and Persians and Pakistanis in the Middle East. Our great nation will fall out off of its place in the sky and come crashing back into the middle ages! Terror and Anarchy will reign and the only option, the private option, will be DEATH!

The Problem with this Philosophizing

I want to build a philosophy based on Science Fiction. There's a great variety of issues that can be both explored by and instigated from SciFi, and because of it's literary nature it can be irresponsible without being very detrimental (and sometimes the irresponsible series lay certain ground work for philosophy by just how wrong they are), and even series themselves my vary in responsibleness.

What intrigues me most about topics covered by science fiction is that not all people must be Human, and these non-human people may be of two forms: biological or artificial; each of these forms offers issues of equality.

However, to answer any of these questions, one must first determine what a person is, and how a person is different from the structure from which is arises. Initially the first seems pretty simple, but from the examination of the latter it becomes terribly foggy.

I suppose the difficulty I'm having is that I'm a bit afraid of what I might turn up, and how radically it might shake myself in the process. But I feel that this exploration will hopefully make me a better person, and I hope that this could contribute to humankind's journey to be a better people, or at least set of persons.

Defying Logic

Defying Gravity seems troublesome. Though they have cleared up the reason why their hair doesn't float, they use magnetic hairspray. Now, that's just silly. Why not just keep the astronauts in a gravity entirely simulated by a rotating frame of reference, i.e. centrifugal force, instead of using electromagnetism to hold hair and bodies to the floor, though feet seem to move easily.

I'm still out on the show. It's been interesting enough to hold my attention, but it is also bad enough to meet my ridicule. I'm actually hoping that it'll go somewhere interesting.