Shooting in Orlando

So there is a lot of misinformation as well as good information circulating about the shooting in Orlando.   Omar Mateen killed at least 49 LGBT people and injured several others. He was an individual, a particularly flawed, sexist, useless, and evil person who was probably suffering from mental disorders.  He is an an illustration of what can happen when people give up the responsibility of thinking for himself.  Alas, he was only one anecdotal case, so to extrapolate his story to others, with no additional evidence would be a mistake and another abrogation of the duty to think.

Some things that are true, Islam is a religion, irrational on its face, like all religions.  Also sexist and anti-homosexual, like many religions, especially the Judeo-Christian-Islam school.  I have given up all religion.  I have decided, to the extent possible, to leave the room whenever a preacher starts speaking a foreign language.  In this modern society, there isn't any rational excuse to speak a language your listeners are not likely to understand and I won't stand for it.

Also true is that Mateen pledged support to ISIS.  This suggests that eliminating ISIS could lower the risk of future violence of this sort.  However this needs to be dealt with by cost benefit analysis.  Is it worth the expense to eliminate ISIs? What will change? Is it cheaper to police ourselves and fight Isis on a case by case basis? More security.  Also, a military draft is never the answer.

What is not called for: the idea of banning all assault weapons.  Crooks like Mateen will harm people regardless of our gun policy.  Also, not all Muslims will carry out harmful crimes, like Mateen.  So, how do we improve security without eliminating all immigration or freedom?

As for gay people.  I'm not gay myself, but homosexuality is intriguing.  It is certainly easier not to have children if you are turned on by the same gender as yourself.  Not having children is probably a decision only humans can make.  So, remember this whenever some preacher tells you that it is your duty to perpetuate your race.   That statement is insulting on its face.  In fact, not having children is the decision which is not only more deliberate, but more indicative of human achievement because it was made deliberately.  There are of course many people who became great despite of their decision to have kids.   There is also some evidence to support Milo Yiannopoulis's argument that homosexuals tend to be smarter than the general population.  Not all homosexuals are far leftists either.  Several of them are seeing reason and joining libertarian causes.