i vote, because i don't care.

you want to be fat. good for you.

run a marathon. good for you.

have consensual, no children involved grimy/wild/risque/whatever sex. again, be great.

i don't care.

no really, i don't care. unless you are asking me to subsidize your choice. or pay for your "treatment" later.

the only time i have an opinion that i will subject you too is when you have your hands in my pockets via "taxes to pay for services". now you have forced me to take a defensive stance, and have an opinion on your life.

So here are two charged political issues. I'll tell you my opinion on them. but don't get it twisted. i'm neither liberal or conservative. i'm "idontgiveafuck"

issue 1: gay marriage. for the record, i voted no on 8. not because it's "right" or "moral" or "fair", but because i don't want to be in a position to be able to say what is right or moral or fair for YOUR personal life. But what about the "my kids will be exposed to homosexuality" argument. well, my kids are exposed to your intolerance. they're surviving that.

anyhow, so for the record, i didn't vote for the moral choice, i voted for the your life, your business choice.

on to issue #2: BMI requirements in school. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/30/lincoln.fitness.overweight/index.html. for me personally, i choose to stay in shape. but i respect someone else's choice not too. but here is where it gets gray...obesity is known to cause major, expensive health problems down the road.

if you are okay with taking responsibility for this, good for you. we still see eye to eye. if you want ME to take responsibility for this, via taxes to pay for your free healthcare, now you have forced me to care. i'd rather pay for my bentley then your triple bypass. no really. i'm not kidding. i really don't give a fuck if you die at 51 because your heart crapped out. just like i don't expect you to care if i off my self with goose and pills. both deaths are self inflicted and preventable. one is just so common it's become socially acceptable.

so anyhow, on this issue, i think what this school is doing, while a minor infraction, is a step in the wrong direction. Why put in extra administrative overhead to manage this. This isn't westpoint. Being in shape has nothing to do with the degree. Do i think they would be better off at a lower BMI. yes...but note the critical word there...THINK. i.e., it is my opinion. maybe they don't agree. but again, back to the guiding principle.

why inject yourself in the middle of someone else's personal choices.

i prefer to neither subsidize or criticize. put the information out there, and let people make choices AND accept responsibility for said choices.

busy bodies, go start a private charity. stop using public funds for your private crusades. in some cases they call that facism. oh, do you now get the obama is hitler references...not because he he's committing genocide. all presidents using public funds to benefit a subset of the population will have this comparison made by their more sensationalist opponents. stop falling for the shock value of it.

anyhow, this is too much common sense for one sitting. either you know this and have stopped reading, or you believe in taxing me to enforce your version of morality, and have therfore written me off as a conservative, selfish prick.

either way, you are free to have your opinion. just don't tax me to enforce it.