Grace Crews

Is it selfish to choose not to have kids?

My mother cried when I told her. Actual tears, at the kitchen table. Then she got over it, because she is an adult, and now she has a rich life full of friends, travel, and a daughter who calls every Sunday. The whole 'but your parents' argument assumes that parental disappointment is a permanent injury rather than an emotion that passes. Adults adapt. My mother adapted. If your moral framework requires you to produce a grandchild to manage your mother's feelings, the problem is a family that never learned that children are people, not achievements.

Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

I live 40 minutes from my polling place in Montana. In January it's dark and twenty below. You want to fine me for not making that drive to choose between two candidates I have never met who will both ignore my state? Voting is already hard out here: one polling place for the whole county, no bus, mail service that skips weeks. Make it mandatory and you're not creating civic virtue. You're creating a rural tax on people the system already forgot.

Should location privacy violations trigger automatic independent audits?

Enforcement always chases the biggest names, which leaves the long tail of apps quietly selling your location. The FTC's Outlogic order made headlines, but thousands of smaller SDKs and data brokers never see a regulator. Automatic audits flip the incentive: instead of betting you are too small to get caught, every company handling location data knows an independent review is coming. The [FTC's own orders](https://www.ftc.gov/) already impose 20-year audit requirements on caught violators; making the trigger automatic just extends that protection to users who will never be named in a press release. Most people cannot tell which apps sell their movements. An automatic audit can.

Regulatory arbitrage is the whole game. Companies already shop for the friendliest data regime, and AI labs will do the same with safety rules. A voluntary principle that a lab can dodge by moving servers is not a rule at all.

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