Libfas, please explain your ethics

1.  Why is it wrong to kill a violent criminal but okay to kill an innocent fetus?  I'm not particularly opposed to abortions, but it makes no sense that you rail against capital punishment while endorsing abortion.

2.  Why do you despise Christianity but tell everyone else that their religions are beautiful and are to be respected?  I don't understand how you can extol the greatness of science and education while while telling everyone (other than Christians) that their baseless beliefs should be protected.  I'm generally opposed to religion, so I say if you're going to hate one of them, hate all of them.

3.  Why is it wrong from conservatives to go on fear mongering about terrorism but it's okay for you to tell everyone the world is going to end because of global warming?  Whether or not you believe in either of these supposed threats it's clear that both sides are using fear to manipulate people.  Why not take the higher road if you're so educated and ethical?

4.  Why do you like Mac so much?

5.  Why do you believe the federal government can fix all of society's ills when it can barely deliver the mail?  It has been proven throughout history that large central governments lead to corruption and abuse.  Why do you continue to support big government?

You don't know what the costs--whether in terms of money, human life, quality of life, or any other form of utility--of not dealing with global warming proactively will be.  You also don't know what the costs of implementing Kyoto or any of the other various proposals will be, either.

No one can.  The number variables involved is too high, and their interactions too complex, to make it possible for any monolithic entity to make this judgment.

But markets can.  Markets, the ultimate distributed decision-making mechanism, work by bringing together billions of people, each of whom possesses information regarding his own personal interests and preferences.  By aggregating all this information, markets necessarily produce the outcome that best maximizes utility across the board.