I very much agree with you, and I think an important reason to do so is that there isn't necessarily an objective "better". Debian's conservative release is great for production servers and stability. Ubuntu and many of these "OS" vendors' choices are great if you want exactly what you get and don't care too much about the things under the hood.
I love both Arch and Debian, but I usually use them for very different things.
Yes, but "no perfect option" doesn't imply "no better option".
I could also counter that the extra weight to "minority extreme views" is much less of an issue than most votes in most US states being meaningless because of the first past the post system on a state basis. But I don't really see this as a meaningful discussion, it's undebatable that the US system is flawed to the point where it can't be called a real democracy.
2. Or it will just cause the women to get abortions elsewhere, or let the kids grow up in homes that can't support them. Not to mention the extra loads of single moms (or dads). No one will be "saved".
What it's more likely to accomplish is to make Texas even more republican, and to make the US appear even more crazy to the outside world.
I love both Arch and Debian, but I usually use them for very different things.