Cohesive devices

"*Through civil unions we can have equal rights across sexualities, while still maintaining the definition of the word marriage. I will @[also] point out that while many people believe that gay parents can cause detrimental effects on the development of their children; there is simply no statistical backing for this. @[The fact is] that while there are secluded cases that could prove nearly any stance you tried to argue, it is simply no more common for straight couples to raise a serial killer than gay couples. @[A third point] I will argue is that while it is argued that civil unions versus marriage is a new age case of separate but equal, this is simply not the case. Marriage is not a tangible thing, it is an idea. An idea cannot be diluted by prejudiced people, because you cannot create a weaker bond, it is within the person, and within the law. It is not something that a person can physically take away from.

We have a policy that needs changing. *Yes, I'm still talking about my SSN, because even though I have no idea how an ID thief uses my SSN, I know that if they have it their work is pretty much done. We need to change how easily our SSNs are attainable. @[Now], as far as the reasoning behind this goes, I'm sure that it was simply a lack of thought put in to it. Anyone who had thought twice about the topic certainly would have said "hmm, maybe there's a better way to do this." Why doesn't USC, like most other schools, assign a randomly generated ID number to all students? Would that be so hard. I have a basic, half semester high school web design class under my belt, and I could design a program that could do it. And if that is even too much work for you, you can at absolute least use the same 3 digits of your SSN to post anything. It's a lot easier to guess 1 number than 6, in the right order.

*Using SSNs as student ID's is that much cheaper, also, at this point it would be impractical to begin to change every student's ID number. @[Also], the amount of effort needed to steal your identity (There's three whole steps involved! Read last five digits off someone's test, read first three in russel house, guess at number #4, ok. Back to devil's advocate now) is just too much to make it worth an identity thief's while. @[Not to mention], it could take as many as 10 guesses to get the number right, not to mention the necessity to test all 10 of those guesses. Wow. That is a lot of work!"

This was certainly an interesting exercise. I didn't find it very helpful, but I think that it would have been very helpful had I brought in the work I've done on my policy paper. So all in all I think it is a good exercise, as long as it is done for a paper in progress, and not just the sake of doing it.