"Sex and Marriage With Robots"

This week, MS-NBC published an article about sex and marriage between a human and a robot.

The end of the article goes on about ethics, and how "robot sex could provide an outlet for criminal sexual urges", and that if you're in a human + human relationship that "one partner could be jealous or consider it infidelity".

But I say, GO FOR IT! I mean, if someone is using their robot for some weird sexual fantasy that is incredibly disgusting, why not just do it. It's safe, and discreet. As long as the person realizes it's not a real person.

The article also talks about the probabibility of it happening and if it's good. But it's not really that farfetched. I mean today people buy dolls that look and feel incredibly lifelike (there's even a movie abou it), so why not go that one step further and get it on with a robot! Some people just suck at meeting people and staying in commited relationships. So if robots can fullfill that need, then by all means people should be able to have relationships with them.

This is kind of like that episode of Futurama when Fry goes on a date with a Lucy Liu Bot and falls in love with her.

Bottom line: If people want to be perverse and can't find humans to do so with, what's the harm in having harmless fun with a robot? There isn't! Humans have urges that sometimes other humans cannot fullfill. So we may as well find an alternative. Just sayin!

"Voters roundly reject MMP"

My father was telling me about the new referendum one day. He said he was voting against it just because it would complicate things even more. I agreed with him. And as a result, the number of seats that smaller parties (i.e. the NDP, or Green Party) could obtain decreased significantly.

Apparently, the majority of Canadians who did vote (which apparently has be the lowest number in history) thought the same way as my dad, and members of the NDP and Green Party lost seats under MMP.

The rest of the article then talks about how voting would change and how much "easier" it would be. It still sounds weird and if the majority of Canada's population don't see a problem with our electoral system, why then do we still need to reinforce the new referendum? Just because it worked in New Zealand, doesn't necessarily mean it'll work here.

"Whither Marriage"

So this week, CBC News Sunday had a report about the decline in marriages from a few years ago. And personally, I find a lot of problems with this.

First of all, the report tells us that last year, "51.5% of the population age 15 and up had never been married, divorced, seperated, or widowed". Now I don't know about you, but how many 15, 16, 17, and 18 year-olds do you know who've gotten married? Or divorced? Or even widowed for that matter!! So obviously, when factor in anyone ages 15-20 who have more than likely never been in a legally-bonding relationship, your statistics are going to be low.

Then this Barbara Kay woman goes on to tell us how we're having less kids, because we're marrying less, and that in turn is leading to a population decrease. Which in fact may be true, but there are certainly lots of unmarried couples who have kids and a lot of married couples who don't have kids. So marriage doesn't always lead to having babies! Which doesn't mean we aren't "thinking about the future at all".

So Ann Marie then goes to tell us how we aren't necessarially "rejecting marriage" but in fact are a more self-aware society and know what it is we want in life and states that single people "just want to make sure it's right" and that they "want to be with the right person" so they can relax and "live in the present", which I couldn't agree more with!

Then Barbara goes on to tell us that single people are selfish and that you're truly happy when you're with someone else. And that when you have kids you're fulfilling your potential. Which I can't say I agree with, because that's kind of like saying you can't be happy without a family. But I personally know many couples who have been with each other for decades, who don't have children, who are very happy. Basically Barbara digs herself a hole she can't get out of because I can't agree with her at all.

Basically I believe that there isn't a subconcious thought for wanting or not wanting kids. I just think and believe that some people do really want to get married, and some really don't. Some people strongly would like children, and some people strongly do not. Whether or not it's for the right or wrong reason, people are different, and we just need to recognize that and not judge.