Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

Reasons to agree : +3 When one man marries two women, some other man marries no woman. When one man marries three women, two other men don't marry. When one man marries four women, three other men don't marry. Monogamy gives everyone a shot at marriage. Polygyny, by contrast, is a zero-sum game that skews the marriage market so that some men marry at the expense of others.China and India have a lot of sex-selective abortion, leaving more men than women.  We already have too many unmarried men. China and India have some sex-selective abortion and infanticide, leaving too many men.  By the year 2020 extra men will make up 12 to 15 percent of the young adult male population in China and India.  Reasons to disagree    Score : # of reasons to agree: 3 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: 3 Podcast that agree: http://mormonstories.org/sons-of-perdition-the-...

Reasons to agree Polygamy leaves some men with no women to marry . +3 When some men don't have viable chances of marriage, it is bad for society.  Reasons to disagree   Scriptures that agree Scriptures that disagree Score : # of reasons to agree: 1 # of reasons to disagree: -0 # of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 3 # of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0 Total Idea Score: +4 Images That agree Images That disagree Interest of those who agree Interest of those who disagree Common Interest Opposing Interest Videos That agree Videos That disagree Website that agree Websites that disagree Related arguments: Don't like the score? It is easy to change the score. Just post a reason to agree or disagree with the overall idea, or any of the reasons and the score will change

We should require that our politicians use a transparent decision making process, in which they clearly outline the reasons voted for a bill, and the reasons they hesitated voting for a bill. This process works well for the court system, which is required to give a majority and minority opinion, after they vote. It also works in engineering classes, where students are not only required to get the right answer, but are required to show their work, indicating to the professor how they came to their conclusion. Currently, we don't even require them to pretend that they are acting in our interest by having a formal procedure that they account and explain their actions. There are many ways we could expose the decision making progress to the light of transparency. For each vote we could require that politicians: pass tests on subjects that affect their vote . This will support transparency by letting us know if our politicians are even informed or not. If they know nothing about anythi...