What if everything is true.  What if all the controversial, devisive and seemingly contradictory arguments everbody makes, are actually correct.

An able statesman out of work, like a huge whale, will endeavour to overturn the ship unless he has an empty cask to play with.

People misread the phrase "persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  They take the two clauses the wrong way around.  The amendment was meant to address grown men and women (former slaves) and their offspring, already living in the U.S., but whose status was in question.  The subject to the jurisdiction thereof phrase is the point defining who the subject of the sentence is; and the born or naturalized bit describes a characteristic of the subject.
It's meant to say that if you're living here, former slave or otherwise, and you're a part of the American community, you get citizenship status as a default if you were also born here or have been otherwise naturalized.   It is not meant to be directed at the newborn - whose staus would, logically, be a function of his parent's status at the time.  They were trying to decide how to, literally, count former slaves and to determine their rightful place in the civics of the country.  They were not trying to create a new avenue for obtaining citizenship status for immigrants. 
It's easy to see this was the meaning of the words if you simply consider that, if it was about newborns or immigrants, why have the second clause at all?  If it was to infer citizenship on newborns or anybody born here, it would have stopped at the born here bit.  The only rason to add the clause subject to the jurisdiction thereof is to clarify the were talking about living people that are already living here or would be living here in the future.
There is no birth tourism challenge - its simple.  If you're born here, you inheret your parent's status.  If that's the status of a former slave who was also born here or naturalized here, then you're a citizen.  If that's the status of an illegal alien, in the country without permission, then you're an illegal alien in the country without permission.  

Ulysses, the novel by James Joyce, was initially banned from sale in the U.S. because it was deemed to have no redeeming social value.  I'm not sure I agree with the assessment or that anything should be banned from publication, altogether, but this idea of 'redeeming social value' seems worthy of consideration.  Things outside that standard are fair game for folly and anybody who wants to indulge, but it is also fair for a society to set them apart - maybe not appropriate for all company. 

Bottom line, basic decency and politeness is not censorship.  And protecting the tender sensibilities of the young and innocent, or anybody else fpr that matter, isn't necessarily a bad thing.   Generally, folks have the right to be offended - every behavior or expression isn't required to be agreeable to every person who might witness it... but that doesn't mean folks have the right to offend indiscriminantly.  And it certainly doesn't mean a town or a city or a state can't set any standards or limits for what's acceptable in public spaces or open commerce. 

It seems almost axiomatic, and possibly emblematic, of the human condition that the Socratic method of argument gets you killed.  Socrates, himself, set the pattern.
Christ, certainly, was less argumentative, but triggered the same response.
As have many since.
The reality seems to be that when directly confronted with rational, logical thought, the irrational will eventually behave in that most extreme of irrational acts...  

I'd like to see a bit more sport in our sports - and a little more business in our business.  Every endeavor doesn't need to be a platform for socio-political grandstanding.

The industrialized west is not the cause of climate change, it is the solution.   Earth has been observed to cool and warm, in cycles, for all its history.  It is, in fact, a function of Earth's changing orbit around the Sun and the changing tilt to its axis.   These changes result in long ice ages and long warming trends - back and forth.  Over and over.

Modern man isn't the cause of it and cannot change it, but he can find ways to adapt and flourish in spite of it.  Heated or air conditioned homes.  Clean water.  Medicine.  Food production.

Undoing industrialization won't help break the cycles of the planet but it will break our ability to mitigate the impact.