My political views

Abortion is fine. An individual human doesn't count as a person until they're born, the same way that they're no longer a person after they die.

Animals aren't of any inherent moral importance the way that people are. It's not wrong to kill animals or make them suffer, excepting circumstances such as killing other people's pets or livestock, or hunting species that people have voted to protect because they're endangered.

One person, one vote. Everybody who's subject to a government should have an equal say in its functioning, regardless of gender, race, age, education, and criminal history. Notice that this includes children. In the US, the Senate and the Electoral College both violate the rule of one person, one vote.

Direct democracy is better than representative democracy, because representatives often fail to represent their constituents accurately; in particular, they're vulnerable to corruption. Liquid democracy would allow for direct democracy without demanding that every citizen vote on every bill individually in order to have their preferences counted.

All people are unconditionally entitled to health and safety, including adequate food, clothing, shelter, and medicine, and it's the government's job to provide these to people who don't have them. When there isn't enough for everybody, the government must help as many people as it can.

People shouldn't be unconditionally free to say whatever they want whenever they want, because some speech (like bigotry, calls for violence, or dangerous pseudomedical advice) is harmful, at least in some contexts. But legal restrictions on speech need to be no less well justified than other legal restrictions.

One's religious beliefs should grant no exceptions to the laws everybody else has to follow. But again, any restrictions on religious practice need to be justified. The justifications of laws themselves, being empirically based, must be secular.

Some human changes to the natural environment, such as global warming and pollution, are major threats to human health, so ameliorating them should be a high priority for government.

The fundamental problem with the death penalty is that dead people can't be brought back to life after we realize that we killed the wrong man. For all the ways that the courts can be improved, they'll never be perfectly accurate in their decisions of guilt and innocence, so there will always be wrongful convictions. The harshest punishment a criminal court imposes should be life imprisonment or exile.

Recreational drugs, including currently legal ones like alcohol and tobacco, are a blight on humanity, and their harm must be reduced as much as possible, which in practice may mean legalizing them. Drug policy should be guided by empirical science with the goal of maximizing population health. The government should never endorse recreational drug use, as by providing alcohol at a state function.

Sex work, such as prostitution and professional pornography, is generally abusive, because the typical modern society harshly punishes those who don't work, and not every sex worker has a non-sexual option that's economically just as good. In other words, consent to sex requires the ability to freely decide not to have sex, and a sex worker doesn't have that freedom, so e.g. paying a prostitute for sex is rape. Society should ensure that nobody has to resort to sex work.

Affirmative action makes sense, but only when implemented in a way that's transparent and quantitatively justified. For example, if 20% of a college's applicants are black and 80% are white, the college could admit a class that's 20% black and 80% white. Gratz v. Bollinger seems to imply that a quota system such as this is illegal in the US, although that's of little consequence since Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard banned all affirmative action in college admissions.

In the US, racism against white people is less dangerous in practice, and less common, than racism against black people, but it's still immoral, and for the same reason. The same goes for bigotry against other oppressor classes such as men and heterosexual people.

Bigotry is often seen as a zero-sum competition in which the oppressor benefits at the expense of the oppressed. In fact, bigotry often harms the oppressor class. In the case of misogyny, for example, men are directly harmed in two ways: misogyny gives rise to misandry, as in the case of men being sent to war and to die in vast numbers because women are considered too delicate and unreliable to fight; and squandering women's talents harms society as a whole, which includes men. The people who benefit most from oppression are typically not the majority oppressor class, but a small powerful elite who manipulate oppression to their own ends, as when demagogues stoke racism in the masses as a means of accumulating power.