Arthur Cook

Is it selfish to choose not to have kids?

Children are the number one predictor of marital dissatisfaction in the research literature. Not money, not in-laws: kids. Couples who love each other, who built something good, routinely report that the arrival of children strained everything: the sleep, the money, the intimacy, the friendship. Choosing to protect a good marriage, choosing your partner over a hypothetical child, is treated as selfish, which tells you how warped the moral math has become. Since when is tending the love you actually have less noble than gambling it on love you might feel for someone who doesn't exist yet?

Should the United States adopt a universal healthcare system?

Americans die younger than citizens of every other high-income country. The Commonwealth Fund regularly ranks the US last among peer nations on access, equity, and outcomes despite spending far more per person. [Commonwealth Fund](https://www.commonwealthfund.org). The UK's NHS and Canada's Medicare are not perfect, and their critics love wait-time anecdotes, but no Briton loses their house over a hospital bill and no Canadian gets a surprise $40,000 invoice. A universal system means negotiating drug prices nationally, which is why insulin costs a tenth as much across the border. We already run universal systems for seniors and veterans through Medicare and the VA. The question is not whether government can run health care. It already does, for the most expensive patients, while private insurers profit on the healthy.

Should corporate boards face personal accountability for repeated privacy violations?

Directors oversee systems; they do not configure every database. Threatening prison or personal ruin for negligence, as one proposal summarized by [Cleary](https://www.clearyenforcementwatch.com/2019/06/legislators-propose-differing-approaches-to-federalizing-corporate-responsibility-for-data-breaches/) contemplated, could drive qualified people away and reward defensive paperwork over security. Use clawbacks for proven misconduct and reserve personal penalties for fraud, concealment, or deliberate lawbreaking.

And Carpenter is the right anchor. The Court already said location history is special. The law treating it like a cookie banner violation is the mismatch.

Business · Sep 23, 2026 · Should companies be required to pay customers when they misuse location data?