The Awkward Question of the Week (AQW) -2022

The purpose of this entry is to cause the reader to lift their head from their 'smart phone' and take a look around them at the world in a smart way 

It is said there is no such thing as a dumb question. Of course there are dumb questions; they are just the easiest to answer...

10/16/2022 - Seeing as humans are a carbon based life form, are the actions like abortion and the neutering of teens through gender affirmation surgery just two more arrows in the quiver of the Progressives seeking to stop climate change? 

10/9/2022 - Is there any point in teaching MS Excel, when those seeking certification are incapable of understanding the basic underlying mathematics?

10/2/2022 - Should the Right Honorable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, be made the poster boy for how Canadian men should treat women? 

9/25/2022 - Given the line 'Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two do make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in the summer.'; was Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s-25 October 1400) ahead of his time?

9/18/2022 - Should the hungry be allowed to break and enter into another person's home for the purposes of raiding the fridge and shelter; how high in the numbers can this go before this action becomes permissible?

9/11/2022 - A multiple choice AQW, please pick which of the lines below is the most awkward:

1. Should people with pets and/or small children who do ‘remote work’ take a pay cut if they don’t have a dog walker or a child sitter?
2. Should companies who reduced their real-estate foot print in favour of remote work lower their prices and/or increase the wages of the staff who now work longer hours due to the inefficiencies of working remotely?
3. The practice of finding the perfect candidate for a job is often referred to as headhunting, when the criterion for the perfect candidate is just that the candidate is a black person, does this mean that headhunting black people has now become a thing once again?
4. Are children being groomed into the ideals of racism and exploitative sexual activities, now the line in the sand for the majority of society?
5. Are the attacks on Donald Trump a bell-weather, for those who won’t drink the Kool-Aid of the current popular narrators?

9/04/2022 - Does the title 'Fact checker' ensure that you know the truth and who's truth is it anyway?

8/28/2022 - What democracy is being protected by supplying Ukraine with money, supplies and weapons?

8/21/2022 - Should those seeking ‘reparations’ be billed for the STEM advancements they are now enjoying and what tax rate should be applied to any monies they receive?

8/14/2022 - With so many races on this planet and how race is now being treated as a political zero sum game, the question must be asked 'whom will be next up against the wall if all the white people disappeared?'

8/7/2022 - Were the people protesting the black African-American comedian Dave Chappelle racist in their efforts to cancel him?

7/31/2022 - Should male players who wish to defend female sports of the same type they play, dress in the visiting teams jersey and a skirt, holding up a sign that says 'Let Me Play'? 

7/24/2022 - Would a one world government not simply exasperate the peoples' frustrations they currently feel with their own Country level government; as the people will be even further removed from those who rule?

7/17/2022 - Is the political demonizing of the police a reaction to Media reports OR are the Media reports the result of the political actions against the police?  

7/10/2022 - Along the same lines as the Leftist like to discuss gender, is a person's race assigned or observed at birth?

7/03/2022 - When you have 1,000+ friends on Social Media and you express your problems to the public Internet, which is more diluted you or your friendships?

6/26/2022 - Why are the US Democrats mourning the overturning of Roe v. Wade, when now they can codify into law at the state level where it always should have been?

6/19/2022 - What activities or ideological foundation makes Nazism right wing at its core?

6/12/2022 -  In a society were minorities rule, how many people are in the target group when, politicians use the determiner 'our', as in - our Democracy?

6/5/2022 - During Pride month should parents be allowed to bring their children into a strip club that conforms to what the children are able see from the sidewalk on the parade route?  

5/29/2022 - Has mankind put too many eggs in the one basket called the public Internet?

5/22/2022 - Is a 'woman' having a penis to gender equivocal to a Canadian Prime Minister wearing black face is to race? 

5/15/2022 - Can you now with 100% certainty, draw a picture of the primary reproductive organs for whom the feminists are standing for? 

5/08/2022 - Happy Mother's Day, should the second Sunday in May now be renamed  to 'Birthing Person's Day' or is there more to being a mother than just 9 months of gestation, dilation of the cervix and huge amounts of both temporary effort and pain?

5/01/2022 - Should the Nazis be blamed for climate change considering that the average human body releases about 100 lbs of Co2 not counting the fuel required to generate enough heat for the burning?

4/24/2022 - Will Social Media die when enough people are terrified to use it due to the future consequences, or will it survive based on the bravado of youth? 

4/17/2022 - Is it Islamophobic to stop a Muslim from killing a homosexual?  

4/10/2022 - At what point does the political worry turn into the political NO! Where do you draw your line? 

4/3/2022 - What percentage of muscle mass needs to be removed from a trans-woman so they can feel they are in a more feminine body?

3/27/2022a - At the Oscar awards, was Will Smith hitting Chris Rock staged; if not what does tell you about our society and if so what does that tell you you about our society? 

3/27/2022b - Is it a good idea to hedge inflation by buying canned and dried foods, like pasta, if you are not well armed?

3/20/2022 - What is the best ratio between empathy and bigotry when it comes to personal safety and well being?

3/13/2022 - If reducing consumption saves the environment, and reducing the number of consumers is also good for the environment, will the climate fixers promise to commit suicide for their own cause?

3/6/2022 - Who do you trust to lie to you?

2/27/2022 - Pfizer made 40B on a vaccine that was massively funded with public money, should the public get any ROI?

2/20/2022 - Are you worried that Western leaders are not speaking up against Canadian Martial Law?

Updated 3/27/2022, the EU has, en mass, condemned Trudeau for his actions in Canada. 

2/13/2022 - Circa 1960 the Polio vaccine was given to the world patent free, this leaves me to wonder where are the socialists and progressives demanding that a similar gesture be made for the magic potions brewed up for COVID-19?

2/6/2022 - What has the COVID actions and reactions shown the citizenry???

1/30/2022 - Who are more worried about COVID-19_Omicron on per 100 people, the demos or the politicians? Please consider your reasons. 

1/23/2022 - In a world of trans-people can there still be sexism or feminism?

1/16/2022 - What happens when 'correlation does not imply causation' collides with 'Occam's razor'?

(Post hoc ergo propter hoc)

  

1/9/2022 - Do modern young women in the western world over spend on their social and economic capital in their early years? 

1/2/2022 - Due to the current lock downs and mandates in the country I am in, Canada, should the line 'The True North strong and free!' be stricken from the national anthem - O Canada?