a note on the use of sci-fi as "evidence"

I personally, and this is just me personally, I feel that sci-fi has been the only field of fiction to really challenge our notions of what today is and how we live and what horrors await us--such as the Singularity, the end of death, the colonization of the Solar System and the galaxy (not horrors because they will be terrible, but horrors because are unprepared and are not ready to face facts--we are life engineered to bring order to chaos--the "Bene Gesserit" view from Frank Herbert's Dune series) . Heinlein was the first to see that today's marriage customs are simply not going to cut it. There are simply too many people out there wanting to live their lives as they want to and to force them to not do so is both against our tradition of individualism and self-governance but also goes against common sense. Using force to prevent even a small group of consenting adults from doing what they wish with their bodies, minds, and from how they wish to contractually arrange themselves will only result in trouble, trouble, trouble. Look at what sixties years of the "drug war" have reaped. A narco-terrorist proto state in Columbia, Afghanistan which has but two exports, opium and hashish, a global narco-terrorist network that is filthy rich and shadowy and has its tendrils into who knows how many developing nations governments and is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for most of the global corruption, an underground economy in the United States estimated at over a trillion dollars, and the list goes on and on and on. What a terrible waste of resources, time, manpower, intelligence, and money. And look at the "marriage" debate. The evangelicals are praying hard that these are indeed the end times while the pinkoleft thinks that the evangelicals are nuts for thinking that end times are here and this is just a progression towards a more fair, more just system. What good can ever come of a situation when two groups not only vicersally despise each other but are unable to even talk to each other. Naturally, this is mostly the fault of the pinkoleft--the only speak their language, while the evangelicals, libertarians, conservatives and others on the right were forced for many years to learn how to speak Leftspeak so as to survive in polite society. We're bilingual, while they're not, which somebody point out on the Corner the other day. Let people associate how they want and don't interfere--it's just not a good idea.