Andrew Wilson
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I'd ban porn, I'd ban gay marriage, I'd put in some kinds of laws which had dominion over the airwaves when it came to degeneracy.
Meaning, I don't think you should turn on channel 32 and see naked women.
I don't think that that's good for the public.
I don't think it's particularly useful.
I would probably outlaw smartphones, put age restrictions on smartphones, probably till you were like 18 years old.
There would be some pretty restrictive things that I would put in place, but it would also maximize human ethical flourishing, right?
The idea here is like, why do kids need to be looking at smartphones and training their brain towards smartphones?
It's been terrible for them.
So ultimately, the views of what's best for the nation, that's what's going to be first and foremost in my brain, right?
Yes, the religious aspect,
It's always gonna be God first, but from like the things that I can do something about, it's gonna be from the national level.
The nation that we have is a checks and balance-based republic.
So obviously I'm going to work within the confines of that in order to make as many compelling and convincing arguments and as many compelling and convincing things I can possibly do to move people towards this view.
But remember, the problem with democracy, the big hole in it, is you can democratically remove it.
So you can vote out democracy.
It's built in right into democracy to be able to do that.
And the most American thing you can do is to remove amendments and put in new amendments.
We do it all the time.
I would like it to be what it used to be at the beginning, which is a stakeholder democracy at the very least.
It means you're either going to have like one household voting, right?