Haha, those wacky people will do that.

Here's the thing, the public probably won't get their governments to do it in short order, particularly in many countries.

So the only other option is politicians looking beyond the next election results and going "Fuck it" which also probably won't happen on a mass scale. And even if multiple governments did do this, everybody'd just scream dictator/fascism/whatever.

I don't know the approach required but I imagine a rigourous education campaign is required. Sadly, the conspiracy stuff has muddled the waters.

Well it is a heated issue.

This is why we need to stop treating the objections as valid. They are not and treating them as such just prevents progress.

I don't know if you meant it or not, but that is the most totalitarian thing I've ever read. xD

OK but I'm going to expect you next time you are ill, for éxample, to not go to a doctor but instead take an opinion poll on your treatment. Or maybe ring up some rich people and ask what will cause the least problems for them in your treatment.
It's one of the great tragedies of free speech that it is interpreted through the modern media as giving equal time to conflicting opinion - ie people who are legitimate experts on one hand and random fuckers off the street on the other

I just wanna see some people be cool about it though. =/

The problem with topics like this, though, is that people will rarely warm to the opposition.

Not to mention that a heated issue will cause extremities on both sides of the argument.

That's because it creates an atmosphere of uncertainty.

I got it.