How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.