Lantau trip HKAYP

I though the Lantau trip was in January 11-13... but apparently it gets put forwards.

So no more Bronze AYP practice trip...

Who carries what?

1 tent guy

1 tent guy

1 trangia, fuel guy

1 food, snack guy

I guess if the tents aren't actually that heavy, the food load and fuel load can be shared out.

Also, make sure we all bring hats and hiking sticks. Hiking sticks are good for long marches, because they make walking less boring and shares out some load. Hats are good because you don't want a freezing head. I'm thinking about some reflective cloth belts, so that it will be good for identification at night.

My headlight is marginally powerful, and someone should bring a more powerful flashlight, because it's much better for path-finding at night. If we missed a ribbon in some very nasty bush-wack, we may have to camp out for the night. Which I think would be ideal, but the rest of the group and teachers would find annoying.

Walking 50km in three days is not easy, and especially when we have less people than the other groups. Also take into account of getting lost or taking the wrong paths. 

Be prepared to walk from 0800 am to 2000 pm, because we must cover AT LEAST 17 kilometers everyday. 12 hours should be sufficient, given that we climb the tallest hills, instead of trying to traverse them. Traversing an overgrown/non-existent path is more dangerous than going up an established path.

I wander if we'll be more independent this time. I prefer no teacher, unless they are only shadowing us or good navigators. 

I'm not using matches this time (but maybe as backup), because they aren't windproof nor reliable enough. Lighters are better. I insist on getting the lighter Trangia, because we only have 4 people and it appears to be faster. 2 fuels should be marginally enough for 4 meals and drinking needs.

UV sterilization of water and active carbon filtration would be available, but it depends on how trusting you are to it. Active carbon filtration is necessary to remove any organic toxins that cannot be killed, and particles that may block UV. I am also thinking about double treatments just for safety. You may even choose to add iodine, but that is unnecessary, because iodine is milder than many other treatments. 

This is going to be pretty hard, so group cohesion is necessary, even when we are tired. We can't let members trail behind or get bored or too tired. Fatigue also contributes to errors.

Abortion

Abortion is an interesting topic, because there are conflicting interests. 

Babies have the inherent right to life, as given to them by a creator.

Some men and women, under certain conditions, want to get rid of the baby, because delivering it will have major financial consequences.

My solution is not to make abortions illegal, but to make it so that people make their own decisions, at their own cost, with their own minds and money, and the conditions defined. The conditions should be limited to sound medical reasons, substantial risk to lives or sexual assault. The abortion should also take place within the first 3 months. This should make people more aware of the consequences of their actions, which should be a positive outcome for both the mother, family and the child. Finally, this should also compromise a variety of views and interests.

Are babies alive and have human rights? YES! If someone pulled the fetus out of the mother and destroyed it, the person can be sued and put in jail for life for MURDER. The only time it is not, is when the fetus dies or is hurt, has a defect or the mother's life is endangered.

So the fetus/baby has a LEGAL human rights unless it is a danger to others or itself, where other rules overrides it.

Now, to the mother's rights. The baby is in the mother's body, but whether it is part of her body or a sovereign body is up for lots of debate, just as the issue of whether life begins at contraception. For the sake of covering the worst case scenario of this dilemma, I will assume that it is part of the mother's body. This means that the mother has the power to decide the fate of the child. But only if it affects her in a way that can be proven to be endangering or as a result of rape

Abortions as a result of rape can be prevented, should a person choose to do so. Humans have since had the ability to control their own fertility, and it's called birth-control pills. 

Feminists like to think and argue that women are special and helpless. They try to single out issues that concern to women and use those as bases to work outwards. Yet, if you look at women as nothing more than human beings, you realize that feminism was built on a huge mound of logical fallacies and hypocrisy. I hope women would think about this from a human, rather than female point of view and see through the sad, self-pitying crap before it engulfs the world.

One thing I hope everyone can agree on is that government should not, using taxpayer money, help abort fetuses. This is because, no one gets to control what their tax dollars are used for directly, and there are always some who won't agree with abortion.  

If one wants an abortion, people will have to fund it from some feminist charity, insurance or out of their own pockets. 

Suppose someone stole something from a victim. The victim goes over to the police. The thief is caught and charged with theft. But the item stolen was never found. Is it possible to get the police to buy you back the thing that was stolen? No. The police, courts and government don't do that. Why should they bail a woman/human out of a rape case? 

The government is not a savior designed to help everyone at everything. It just never works, unless government is able to create new resources infinitely and indefinitely. But that's never possible, so feminism would fail too.

So, I have arrived at the optimum method for defeating feminism. It is very simple. You leave them alone. Eventually, it would just collapse under its own weight or be overthrown by its once faithful followers, like the Soviet Union. In the meantime, one can speed up the process by getting others to challenge their own opinions.

Proof of God

Suppose before you were born, nothing existed. Nothing at all. The system itself didn't exist either.

Then how did it occur that there is now stuff in the system? 

Science has yet to explain how it is possible to create anything out of a complete void. Therefore, something bigger must have existed before the system. Maybe god.