luxury vs necessity

ok... I think this is worth a whole new post.

Where do you draw the line between luxury and necessity?? That's not a cut & dried issue I'm sorry... Sex, music, companionship, conversation, self-expression. None of these are necessary for day-to-day survival. All are important for staying sane, and sex in particular, but many of the others as well are indispensible to the species.

Conservative social policy - an oxymoron?

In the news today...

Cameron said he continued to believe that the main cause of social breakdown -
which he described as "the big question of our times" - was family separation.

...which is great, obviously. Not simplistic at all.

But is the left is equally simplistically arguing the counter - social breakdown causes family separation? Clearly the two are related, and reinforce each other, but are complicated by othr factors including education, economics and much else. Who really convinces on these issues?