That's not the right comparison. He didn't commit suicide because he was ashamed of supporting gay rights, he was ashamed of wanting to cross dress and of having engaged in the activity. Regardless of politics, that's a pretty uncommon behavior. Most people don't want other people to know they're a sexual deviant of some kind. I'd guess that this behavior is much more maligned in conservative circles than liberal or left, for sure, but the point is that it's not just the breaking from the standard beliefs of that side.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. There are tons of Republicans who support gay rights in some fashion, even if it's not a majority position within the party.
2023 is literally better than every year in human history that came before it. People are just negative, it's part of our nature to not be content and constantly push for improvement for ourselves and others.
That's a good example of unintended consequences. Another is alcohol becoming really dangerous on the black market once Prohibition happened in the US.
That changes a lot depending on what time period of pregnancy you're looking. The later you look the more it's about health. By the time you get to third trimester abortions they're almost exclusively about health. The ones of convenience are early, it all makes sense.
Because it puts some responsibility back on the individual and makes it harder for people to blame "modern society" or capitalism or something for their problems.
The incentive is already there, it's just prohibited because of zoning and building codes many places. All the government has to do to fix this is stop getting in the way.
Climate change is bad, but maybe take a deep breath about it. This isn't the hottest the earth has ever been, life is pretty resilient, and humans are in some ways the most resilient life Earth has yet produced.
I mean, it's not being ignored. There's electric vehicles, charging stations all around, subsidies for solar panels on houses, green branded products, banning of certain harmful things, the list goes on. Maybe you think it's not enough, but it's pretty out there to call that ignoring.
I should add in seriousness, I do think it's important to recognize that laws don't magically make things go away. Sometimes things are very hard to eliminate, and sometimes prohibition of something actually makes it worse like with the Drug War. But like you said about murder, we don't say, "murder bans didn't actually eliminate murder, therefore we might as well get rid of them."
I don't know about other places, but here in Indiana we have a statewide Red Flag law. I don't know about you, but I don't think of Indiana as much of a blue state.
That's not the right comparison. He didn't commit suicide because he was ashamed of supporting gay rights, he was ashamed of wanting to cross dress and of having engaged in the activity. Regardless of politics, that's a pretty uncommon behavior. Most people don't want other people to know they're a sexual deviant of some kind. I'd guess that this behavior is much more maligned in conservative circles than liberal or left, for sure, but the point is that it's not just the breaking from the standard beliefs of that side.