Congratulations ! You are this week ' s winner ! What would you like the next theme to be ? <| sep |> Why do you think this is normal ? Who touched you when you were a child ? <| sep |> The Dhammapada is a great foundation text . I recommend the Thannisaro Bhikku translation . Gil Fronsdal has a number of great talks on audiodharma . org . As you start to study , I ' d also recommend starting a dedicated mediation practice , even for 10 minutes a day . I need to strengthen my self controlBuilding concentration and focus using breath awareness meditation is one of the first things you ' ll find when doing meditation . Anyways , good luck and have fun , even . <| sep |> It ' s not upto me , or society , to impose morals on someone else . I ' m definitely prochoice , but this line of reasoning is absurd . What you ' re describing is the very institution of laws itself . Every single law that has ever existed , exists now , and will exist in the future is about imposing morals on other people . Most of these morals the vast majority of people agree with . Like killing innocent people is wrong . Don ' t steal . Don ' t torture people . Those are morals . Those who are against abortion are not unique in believing that we should be able to have some control over what other people do . Their logic is more along the following lines 1 human fetuses are people . 2 assuming human fetuses are people , terminating a pregnancy is murder . 3 murder is worse than losing bodily autonomy . I actually agree on point 3 , but disagree on points 1 and 2 . Fetuses are not people . Even if they were , terminating a pregnancy is more akin to refusing to provide life support than murder . We don ' t demand that individuals donate organs to save other people , so we can ' t demand that someone carries a pregnancy to term either .