blackplague1

everybody in here is innocent. dont you know that?

Big fan of publically financed elections. But struggling with some specifics....

Two questions:

1. How exactly do we get to publically funded elections? It seems like the very people in office are those who got there without publically funded elections. How do we pressure them to change?

2. How would funding levels be determined? What if we had a very popular candidate, and a very unpopular candidate? They'd receive the same amount of funding? How would an "unknown" candidate qualify for funding? How would we determine who is a "serious" candidate and who is just jumping into the campaign for the heck of it?

What's your take on prison as rehabilitation VS retribution? Does prison even pretend to be rehabilitative anymore? Can it/should it?

The thing about stuff like this that makes me so mad is SO FEW people know about this or understand this. I have relatively intelligent, well-informed friends. NONE of them understood what I meant when I mentioned this on Fbook.

This is a really interesting concept to me.

However I think you're defining free will in a specific way? As in - you have the ability/free will to choose whether to continue answering questions. Right? Are you thinking of free will at a more "macro" level, as in we can't chose whether we are predisposed to addiction?