{"id":887,"date":"2025-07-10T13:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:16:24","slug":"not-so-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/not-so-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following ideas\/concepts should not be controversial:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>People who live in the US but aren&#8217;t citizens should not be able to vote in any election.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People who are here illegally should be sent back to the country from where they came.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People who are here illegally should not be eligible for benefits that are meant for poor US citizens people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children should not be permitted to receive life-altering elective cosmetic surgery, even if their parents agree.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Insurance companies should not be required to cover elective cosmetic surgery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Humans have the right to defend themselves against attacks that could cause great bodily harm or death.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Countries have the right to defend themselves against attacks by other countries or terrorists. Note that this defense doesn&#8217;t prohibit disproportional responses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discrimination based on inherent characteristics of a person (race, sex) is wrong in any form.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Men should not be allowed to compete with women in women&#8217;s sports.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anyone who wants to come to this country legally and spend any amount of time here should be required to know how to speak, read, and write English.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children should be protected from being sexualized.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Science is never settled; it should always be tested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following ideas\/concepts should not be controversial:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}