Posts Tagged ‘debate’
Let’s be serious about dodging…
Posted on: January 8, 2010
Let’s punish politicians who dodge questions in important debates. Here’s one way to do it. Since audience responses to candidate’s questions are monitored how about we asked the audience to indicate whether they think a politician answered the question or dodged it? If the audience thinks the politician dodged it, the verdict is broadcast live and the moderator asks the politician to answer the question again!
The idea is to give people the extra option to marry online if they want to. Make online civil marriages as legally binding as the ones performed at the mayor’s office. It’s becoming all the more common to meet people online and spend hours chatting on the net and form real relationships, so why not give people the option to marry online if they want to? The benefits are reduced costs, faster planning and an opportunity for new virtual-wedding businesses to develop. We could describe these web weddings in one word ‘Webdings’.
Webdings will probably result in an increase in cross-border weddings. To prevent fake international marriages done for immigration purposes only, the couple will have to submit to the authorities of the country they wish to reside a chronological resume of their online relationship which will have to have a duration of at least a couple of years.
I think it is an interesting concept and the public debate about it should start online.
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