Controversial Topics Poll

I'm posting tomorrow's poll today because I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to post tomorrow, so if you like reading a post a day, and see this on Thursday the 4th, don't read it until Friday the 5th of December. Anyway, back to business.

As I'm sure you know I post a new poll every week or so, and this week the theme was Controversial Topics you support. In the poll you had to choose the topics you support. After 17 votes here are the results:

The Death Penalty [9]
Euthanasia [3]
Abortion [3]
Gay Marriage [8]
None of the Above [3]

These results may not have been a surprise to you, but they were to me.

Now in order to answer these questions there are two different viewpoints to consider:

The State's Viewpoint
Your Personal Viewpoint

The state's viewpoint has to accommodate for everyone, while still enforcing strict laws that can govern the specific law in a strong and reliable fashion.

Your personal viewpoint has no objective other than to give you a moral compass, and to govern your living principles.

I personally am pro euthanasia, simply because at some stage I believe modern medicine stops healing people, and simply keeps them around, and I don't believe that is what medicine is for. At the same time the government is probably not against this specific viewpoint, but cannot allow it simply because there is currently not a reliable system to regulate it.

My personal viewpoint is as follows:
Death Penalty : No
Euthanasia : Yes
Abortion : Yes
Gay Marriage : Yes

I am anti the death penalty because I don't believe that killing should be acceptable in any form, whether it by a person or the state.

I am pro abortion because I don't believe that a fetus is a life, and a person should have a choice. This is a bit of an unfounded belief of mine, but I'm still thinking it through, at this point it is my view though.

I am pro gay marriage simply because I believe that if you are trying to create a strong moral basis for society, it should extend into all sects. If we want all people to value honesty and loyalty, we need to allow marriage in all situations. The other thing is that I have a gay uncle, and he has a 'partner' whom he has been with since just after I was born. I see them as married because they have been together all these years, which is better than most people manage. Why shouldn't they be able to share in the joy of marriage.

Now the thing that surprised me was that there were so many people anti abortion. It interests me that there are so many people that are pro the death penalty too, but everyone is allowed their own opinion.

I guess that as long as it made you think a little I'm happy.